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Annanay Kapila ran trading strategies that moved $10 billion a day, roughly the GDP of France. He walked away from it all to build QFEX, the 24/7 global stock exchange he always wished existed.

In this interview, Annanay opens up about:
1. Why high-frequency trading "adds no value to the world," and how firms quietly extract billions through structural flaws like scheduled futures expiry
2. The "golden handcuffs" that keep Cambridge mathematicians and Math Olympiad medalists trapped in finance
3. How FTX's product innovation (not its fraud) pushed him to rebuild traditional exchanges from scratch
4. The disaster during YC's internal launch that made him question whether a 24/7 exchange was even possible
5. Why Silicon Valley investors think about money completely differently from London and New York

Watch to see how a Cambridge mathematician left a career designed to make him rich in order to build something he can one day tell his kids about.

00:00 Intro
01:07 Money is Killing the Best Talent on This Planet
01:50 How HFT Really Makes Money
03:14 The Golden Handcuffs of Big Paychecks
04:09 But You Need Money to Chase What Matters
05:10 Leaving a Top Hedge Fund Job
06:10 Build Something Worth Telling Your Grandkids
07:10 The Exchange Launch That Almost Broke Us
08:30 Raising at a $95M Pre-Revenue Valuation
09:10 Silicon Valley vs London: A Different Money Mindset
09:49 What's Actually Broken in Traditional Markets
10:45 Advice to Young People in High-Paying Jobs

🔗 Read the full transcription of Annanay’s interview: https://www.eomag.io/article/qfex-annanay-kapila?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description

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Here’s what actually makes you irreplaceable | Carnegie Mellon University PoShen Loh

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Builders Talk | Leadership Lessons from 3x Founder | Snow Lee | Runbear

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Knowledge of A Lifelong Software Engineer | Benjamin Mann, Delivery Hero

00:00 Unlocking a crucial skill for CTOs

Join us for an exclusive interview with Benjamin Mann, the Chief Technology Officer of Delivery Hero. With over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, including notable roles at Global Blue and other renowned companies, Ben has been at the forefront of innovation throughout his career.

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Everyone's Chasing AI But This Matters The Most | Ron Gutman, Intrivo

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Mistakes startups make in business plansㅣBob Tinker & Tae Hea Nahm EP 01

This video features the story of Bob Tinker, the serial entrepreneur and coauthor of Survival to Thrival, and Tae Hea Nahm, the cofounder and CEO of Storm Ventures and the coauthor of Survival to Thrival. Bob and Tae Hea have built together two big successful startups, Airespace and MobileIron. To find productmarket fit and scale their business, they made many mistakes from different perspectives, each as a cofounder and investor. Bob and Tae Hea wrote the book Survival to Thrival, one of the best sellers for B2B startups worldwide, to share their essential takeaways for future generations.

This is episode 1, 'Find the Urgent Pain of Customers'. It explains an effective way to evaluate the problem you want to solve.

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Granola is the AI notepad for professionals in back-to-back meetings. New users get 100% off their first month → https://granola.ai?via=KUzb8Nm

Ali Hussain scaled Latch from a team of less than 10 to over 500 people. At one point, 1 in 10 new apartments in America was going up with their smart locks. He rode that growth all the way to a NASDAQ IPO.

Then he started over.

In 2023, he founded Tabs, building AI agents for finance and accounting teams. Three years later, Tabs has 150+ people, a $55M Series B led by Lightspeed, and 5x ARR growth in a single year, with customers like Cursor and Statsig.

His scaling playbook sounds backwards: in order to grow, you have to go slow before you can go fast.
In this interview, Ali answers the 10 questions every founder should face before scaling.

00:00 Intro
01:55 How did you learn to scale?
02:54 What was the hardest part of scaling?
03:53 How do you get ahead of the hard part?
07:23 Granola, the AI meeting assistant
08:35 How do you build a team that scales?
09:59 How do you grow leaders as your team scales?
12:21 How does your role change as you scale?
13:11 How do you scale what only the founders know?
14:28 How do you keep driving impact as the team grows?
16:14 What's the most common scaling mistake?
17:10 How is AI changing the way you scale?

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We tell the defining stories of founders shaping the future: people who see what others don’t and build what they believe in.

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Stop watching this video and Go build things l Paul Bragiel, Golden Gate Ventures

00:31 brief Introduction to Paul Bragiel

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Advice from the Top 1% of SpaceX Engineer | Sift, Karthik Gollapudi

Karthik Gollapudi was the software leader of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule team and founded Sift, a software tool for more secure and efficient hardware. In this video, feel the first principle of thinking that PayPal Mafia, Starlink, how to attract customers at the beginning, and above all, Elon Musk always emphasizes. That's how we humans made footprints on the moon in the 1960s, and now it's time to terraform Mars!

Pitch your tech startup to top investors in Silicon Valley!

00:00 Intro

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Mindset Behind $50B in Revenue | Ema Unlimited, Surojit Chatterjee

Surojit Chatterjee

00:28 Career Path

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