Thursday, November 6, 2025

Forging into ...? Schwab!


Charles Schwab is buying Forge Global, a fintech that serves as a private company stock exchange.

Forge went public in 2022 via a Motive Capital Partners SPAC.  It has private equity underwriter (PEU) roots according to the company website:
Founded in 2015, Motive Partners is a specialist private equity platform

 TechGod companies proliferate Forge's offerings:


And a number of these companies are flat out creepy.  Shein has childlike sex dolls.


The AI swerve into the porn lane caught many by surprise.  OpenAI's upcoming ChatXXX, xAI's digital sex talk bot using employee biometric data and Meta's engorging on adult content should have been forseeable, given their founders consistent creepiness and seeming inability to connect with carbon based people.  


Schwab, the investor for the little people, is going big, private and creepy.  I was thinking of reactivating my account but realize they have nothing for me.