Why Can't We All Be Insiders?

When I started out on Wall St we worked hundred-hour weeks and slept under desks. We lived on caffeine and adrenaline. But it was there that I learned the most important lesson of the financial world. The market does not move on news headlines. It moves on anticipation of liquidity and leverage changes, information known to very few.

It moves when the people who own the companies decide to move it.

Later I co-founded a hedge fund. We were not interested in the standard analyst reports. We wanted raw truth. We built machines to read financial statements. We created algorithms that could ingest a 10-K filing faster than a human could read the title page. That experience sparked a fire in me. It started my love for building technology.

I realized that software is the ultimate leverage.

For the last fifteen years I have worked in software development, corporate strategy, operations, and finance. I have spent my days using data and systems to help companies grow. My job is building powerful an…