34K Github Stars in Less Than 3 Years: How a Side Project Became a Real Business | Leading with Data Ep 50
Description
Celebrating 50 episodes of Leading with Data, this time, we’re joined by Didier Rodrigues Lopes, Founder and CEO of OpenBB, a company revolutionizing the space of open-source financial tools. Before founding OpenBB, Didier worked as a sensor fusion engineer at NURVV, where he played a pivotal role in enhancing the GNSS receiver’s time-to-first-fix, re-imagining altitude estimation with Kalman Filters, and designing a GPS filtering algorithm to improve accuracy.
Here’s a sneak peek of what you can expect:
➡️ The story behind OpenBB’s inception and journey.
➡️ Didier’s unique strategies for stock trading.
➡️ How the community’s feedback shaped the product.
➡️ Building a business around open-source products.
➡️ Didier’s vision for OpenBB’s future.
➡️ Startups and examples that inspired him along the way.
➡️ The motivation behind OpenBB’s rebranding.
➡️ A look into OpenBB’s offerings and upcoming roadmap.
➡️ Exploring agentic workflows in OpenBB’s platform.
Don't miss out on this thought-provoking conversation!




