MDB Co-Founder & CEO Chris Marlett joins Planet MicroCap’s Robert Kraft to explore how MDB is taking early-stage Big Idea companies public as an alternative to venture capital while addressing the shrinking US microcap universe, the misperceptions around the cost of being public, the opportunity created by a severe shortage of high-quality public companies, and why the public markets can offer founders a more attractive path to scale, liquidity, and long-term value creation.