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At 22 I graduated from university and decided to set up a crypto hedge fund. I learned everything by doing and after years of 100-hour weeks, progress started to happen. Fast forward, I am a Forbes 30 Under 30 lister, running one of the largest crypto hedge funds in the world and a frequent speaker at top conferences. I have been featured in Bloomberg, Forbes, and many other leading news media outlets. In this podcast, I speak with some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers, investors, and entrepreneurs. We discuss their journey to success, the lessons they've learned along the way, and the mindset they use to achieve greatness. FOLLOW ►Twitter - https://twitter.com/NikitaAFadeev Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikitafadeev/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/7nf/
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David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, the leading operator of institutional FX and crypto currency execution venues. Following a successful management buyout, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditional capital markets and the crypto trading industry. Headquartered in the UK, the Group operates 6 exchanges globally and trades in excess of $25billion a day. In 2021, LMAX Group sold a minority stake to J.C. Flowers & Co. About LMAX Group Headq...
Jordi is the Chief Investment Officer of Selini Capital, a digital assets investment firm, as well as an Angel investor and advisor to tech and crypto startups. He has competed at the highest levels of strategy games competitions and transitioned from professional poker into a successful career in High Frequency Trading.
Doyne Farmer is Director of the Complexity Economics programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His current research is in economics, including agent-based modeling, financial instability and technological progress. He was a founder of Prediction Company, a quantitative automated trading firm that was sold to UBS in 20...
Howard Morgan is currently the Chairman of B Capital. He co-founded First Round Capital with Josh Kopelman as the first professional Seed Stage Fund, where he remains Senior Advisor. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross, and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons. Prior to his move into the business of technology, Howard served as a professor at the Wharton School and the Moore School, both at the University of Pennsyl...
Tim Draper is one of the most successful venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. 35 of his portfolio companies became unicorns which include firms like: Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, Tesla, Twitter and many more. In this episode, we discuss Tim’s path into finance, how he launched hist first VC fund, what his outlook for the adoption of AI is, and what he thinks about data privacy and venture capitals’ investing getting more quantitative.
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