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Sebastian Raffaele

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306 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I'm so incredibly proud of the product because it's gone from something that really functioned at a small capacity to a point where now, when we were showing our product at Bitcoin in Nashville, the overwhelming response we got from quantitative traders, from mathematicians who had been in the space for years, like, Everyone was so excited about what we built when we showed them.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I'm so incredibly proud of the product because it's gone from something that really functioned at a small capacity to a point where now, when we were showing our product at Bitcoin in Nashville, the overwhelming response we got from quantitative traders, from mathematicians who had been in the space for years, like, Everyone was so excited about what we built when we showed them.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I'm so incredibly proud of the product because it's gone from something that really functioned at a small capacity to a point where now, when we were showing our product at Bitcoin in Nashville, the overwhelming response we got from quantitative traders, from mathematicians who had been in the space for years, like, Everyone was so excited about what we built when we showed them.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I think that was such a affirming kind of thing to see because we knew already what we had built and we'd had a good response online. But going to an event in person and seeing that really gave us another level of confidence. It's the team all day because you can have the best product on earth. But if you don't surround yourself with the right people, it's not going to succeed.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I think that was such a affirming kind of thing to see because we knew already what we had built and we'd had a good response online. But going to an event in person and seeing that really gave us another level of confidence. It's the team all day because you can have the best product on earth. But if you don't surround yourself with the right people, it's not going to succeed.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And I think that was such a affirming kind of thing to see because we knew already what we had built and we'd had a good response online. But going to an event in person and seeing that really gave us another level of confidence. It's the team all day because you can have the best product on earth. But if you don't surround yourself with the right people, it's not going to succeed.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And that's not me giving a doomsday scenario. I'm just trying to be honest and just let people know. Like you need to put all your value into your team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And that's not me giving a doomsday scenario. I'm just trying to be honest and just let people know. Like you need to put all your value into your team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And that's not me giving a doomsday scenario. I'm just trying to be honest and just let people know. Like you need to put all your value into your team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The biggest mistake I made, and I think I wish I had this advice 10 years ago when I first came into the market, the biggest mistake myself and we made as a team was trying to aggressively get returns out of the cryptocurrency market. And this took such a long time to understand. We got our product to the point where...

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The biggest mistake I made, and I think I wish I had this advice 10 years ago when I first came into the market, the biggest mistake myself and we made as a team was trying to aggressively get returns out of the cryptocurrency market. And this took such a long time to understand. We got our product to the point where...

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

The biggest mistake I made, and I think I wish I had this advice 10 years ago when I first came into the market, the biggest mistake myself and we made as a team was trying to aggressively get returns out of the cryptocurrency market. And this took such a long time to understand. We got our product to the point where...

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

was using a combination now of quantitative maths but also technicals which in the space was innovative at the time we figured a way to combine these two things which traditionally hadn't been really done at scale yet so once we had that we started really running the algorithms quite aggressively and we had months to be honest with you where we were pulling quite a lot out of the market in terms of a percentage and we were saying wow this is crazy

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

was using a combination now of quantitative maths but also technicals which in the space was innovative at the time we figured a way to combine these two things which traditionally hadn't been really done at scale yet so once we had that we started really running the algorithms quite aggressively and we had months to be honest with you where we were pulling quite a lot out of the market in terms of a percentage and we were saying wow this is crazy

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

was using a combination now of quantitative maths but also technicals which in the space was innovative at the time we figured a way to combine these two things which traditionally hadn't been really done at scale yet so once we had that we started really running the algorithms quite aggressively and we had months to be honest with you where we were pulling quite a lot out of the market in terms of a percentage and we were saying wow this is crazy

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And this is the thing with the market as well is it can make you crazy a little bit in the sense that it can sometimes even give you a God complex because you're just simply pulling money almost out of nothing. So you're like, as a human, we see that as, wow, this is really exciting and crazy, but it blinds you once again to what the market is going to do.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And this is the thing with the market as well is it can make you crazy a little bit in the sense that it can sometimes even give you a God complex because you're just simply pulling money almost out of nothing. So you're like, as a human, we see that as, wow, this is really exciting and crazy, but it blinds you once again to what the market is going to do.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And this is the thing with the market as well is it can make you crazy a little bit in the sense that it can sometimes even give you a God complex because you're just simply pulling money almost out of nothing. So you're like, as a human, we see that as, wow, this is really exciting and crazy, but it blinds you once again to what the market is going to do.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And what the market is going to do is take money away from you when you're trying to push too hard. So we made that mistake running the algorithms really aggressively and trying to make money really fast. And I think It's so funny because it comes down to the same thing over and over again.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 E5: Sebastian Raffaele, Minotaur Trading Systems

And what the market is going to do is take money away from you when you're trying to push too hard. So we made that mistake running the algorithms really aggressively and trying to make money really fast. And I think It's so funny because it comes down to the same thing over and over again.