This interview reveals Jonty Quenet’s remarkable journey from teenage stock trader to crypto pioneer and proprietary trading firm co-founder, sharing hard-won lessons from navigating multiple market cycles and building Apex Capital.

Timestamps:
00:00 - From 14-year-old stock trader to crypto full-time
01:03 - Early lessons in financial literacy from South Africa
04:19 - Engineering degree vs trading obsession
08:05 - The creative business that funded crypto arbitrage
13:08 - Would COVID have changed everything anyway?
14:26 - Raising $30M in waitlist interest for hedge fund
19:18 - Riding the 2020–2021 DeFi boom on Solana
22:29 - Three perfectly timed market exits that saved millions
27:41 - Launching Apex Capital proprietary trading firm
31:27 - Getting career traders to consider crypto
37:30 - Manual trading with strict systematic rules
40:33 - Real world assets and blockchain’s true potential
45:00 - AI agents meet DeFi: The future of automated yield
48:18 - Volume-based logic and trusting AI with your capital
52:27 - What’s next for Apex Capital

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👔 LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-quenet
🌍 Website – https://www.apexcptl.com/

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