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Benjamin Miller

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Benjamin Miller

@BenMillerise

@Fundrise, $VCX, Co-Founder and CEO. Disclosures: bit.ly/3A6ubKZ bit.ly/3mjuXzp bit.ly/3O4GfDy

Joined April 2012

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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Aug 11, 2023
The big idea behind the @fundrise Innovation Fund is to democratize access to the top private tech companies (e.g., A.I. is largely happening in the private market). Criticism we have heard so far are: 1) Venture Capital requires special access and pattern recognition. 2) VC is
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Feb 27, 2025
If there’d been ‘rent control’ this disaster would never have happened.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Oct 27, 2025
How does Jamie Dimon spend $3B on a new skyscraper and then let the architect install a fake stone facade?
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Apr 7, 2025
How tariffs will impact the US economy, with @AnnaEconomist The analysis and forecasts she shared are by the far the best that I've heard on the Trump tariffs.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Sep 8, 2024
Replying to @patrickc
The Stalin biography by Kotkin has every senior leader taking months off for medical attention from stress-induced illness like “neurasthenia.”
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Jul 30, 2024
Are we vastly underestimating AI? with Dwarkesh Patel On the latest episode of Onward, @dwarkesh_sp pulls back the curtain so that the broader public can understand what the people who are actually building AI think is about to happen. rb.gy/whbr56 @fundrise
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Mar 10, 2023
If you know any tech companies that got hit by the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, we would be open to help bridge them to make payroll until they get their deposits back. And I mean at like a 5% interest rate or something super reasonable. The deposits aren't gone. They are just
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Sep 7, 2025
Replying to @ATabarrok
This temple is Awesome.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Feb 14, 2025
Replying to @PalmerLuckey
On Ezra Klein’s podcast this week she said Mark Zuckerberg was cosplaying as a man with his gold chain, t-shirts, and MMA.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Jul 11, 2024
Replying to @mattyglesias
The DC City Administrator under Fenty told me that one of the most surprising things he learned was virtually all the violent crime in the city was caused by a few hundred people. The city knows who they are and used to police them more actively, but now that’s become
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Nov 18, 2025
Replying to @RichardHanania
We own and operate real estate in LA And this is not even half the story. The LA system is so insanely tenant friendly that a tenant has literally started bonfires in one of our unit living rooms and we still couldn’t evict them. We had tenants who hadn’t paid rent in years. We
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Mar 10, 2023
.@fundrise has no accounts or deposits at Silicon Valley Bank. We have always kept our major deposits at the biggest banks and in February 2020 we even moved those to government money markets.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Oct 4, 2024
What will AI be worth? Our team did a few months of research and found a surprising pattern in the financial data, which @BusinessInsider wrote an article about yesterday. We agreed to wait 24 hours before we published the full results.
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Benjamin Miller
@BenMillerise
Mar 12, 2023
Key stats for the bridge funding we set up to help companies impacted by Silicon Valley Bank: - 30 companies lined up to fund on Monday - Funding of about $31 million - Our loan to deposit: ~10% avg. - 2 public companies and 8 companies with ~$100M in revenue - Every company was
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