SpaceX is reportedly on track to go public as soon as this June. OpenAI is working with investment bankers on its own path to the public markets. Anthropic is generating the kind of revenue growth investors want to see. As a result, something may be about to happen that has been too rare in recent years: big new opportunities for the public to invest in America’s most dynamic growth companies.

This would be welcome. For too long, venture funds, private equity firms, wealthy investors, and insiders have scooped up the first chance to profit from the most innovative companies, while Main Street investors have been forced to wait until the companies are bigger, older, and much of the upside is already gone.