“Today, buying a patent is slow and opaque, like buying a private company. Tomorrow, it’s like buying a stock. You see the price, you click, you own a fraction of it.”

That’s the future Sam Drissi is building.

In this episode of the Founder-First Showcase, we sit down with Sam Drissi, CEO of Human IP, to unpack why the $6 trillion patent market is still operating like it’s 1985, and how his team is rewiring it from the ground up.

Sam walks us through:
🔹 Why patents today are valued like houses in the 80s (no daily price, no real-time data, weeks of waiting)
🔹 How IPI Terminal is becoming the Bloomberg Terminal for patents, tracking the top patents in quantum, health tech, nanotech, energy, and AI
🔹 What patent tokenization actually means, and why it could unlock a market that’s massive but invisible
🔹 Why fractional IP might be a safer investment than fractional equity
🔹 The shift from passive patents (paying fees every year) to dynamic, revenue-generating assets