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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 back then, conceptually automated systems was something people just laughed at because they were in a traditional financial environment like the stock market where a lot of these guys on Wall Street were using intuition and experience and news and fundamental analysis and things like this. And Jim was trying to bring forward something that for the most of them, they just laughed at.

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

And they didn't believe he could do it. At 52 years old, he started to find ways to pull money out of the market. Within 10 to 20 years, Noah, he created the greatest hedge fund that's ever existed on planet Earth. They had an average historical yearly return of 66%. And he became a man who developed hundreds of billions of dollars. Everyone around him told him he couldn't do it.

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

And they didn't believe he could do it. At 52 years old, he started to find ways to pull money out of the market. Within 10 to 20 years, Noah, he created the greatest hedge fund that's ever existed on planet Earth. They had an average historical yearly return of 66%. And he became a man who developed hundreds of billions of dollars. Everyone around him told him he couldn't do it.

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

And they didn't believe he could do it. At 52 years old, he started to find ways to pull money out of the market. Within 10 to 20 years, Noah, he created the greatest hedge fund that's ever existed on planet Earth. They had an average historical yearly return of 66%. And he became a man who developed hundreds of billions of dollars. Everyone around him told him he couldn't do it.

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

His family, his wife, his friends, no one believed he could do it except for him. And I think this is some advice I can give to people out there is you have to be able to block out the noise. And sometimes that even may be blocking out your family. And it's not having any anger towards them about that.

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

His family, his wife, his friends, no one believed he could do it except for him. And I think this is some advice I can give to people out there is you have to be able to block out the noise. And sometimes that even may be blocking out your family. And it's not having any anger towards them about that.

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

His family, his wife, his friends, no one believed he could do it except for him. And I think this is some advice I can give to people out there is you have to be able to block out the noise. And sometimes that even may be blocking out your family. And it's not having any anger towards them about that.

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

You just have to realize that sometimes rather than just telling people what you're going to do, just go do it. Because at the end of the day, when you get there, people are going to be happy for you regardless. Just not everyone is going to see the vision you do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But you have to block out the noise.

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

You just have to realize that sometimes rather than just telling people what you're going to do, just go do it. Because at the end of the day, when you get there, people are going to be happy for you regardless. Just not everyone is going to see the vision you do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But you have to block out the noise.

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

You just have to realize that sometimes rather than just telling people what you're going to do, just go do it. Because at the end of the day, when you get there, people are going to be happy for you regardless. Just not everyone is going to see the vision you do. And there's nothing wrong with that. But you have to block out the noise.

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

And I think he's my biggest inspiration for that reason because his odds of pulling off what he did was so low, but he knew he could do it. He knew. And I feel the same. Our odds of pulling this off were slim to none. We didn't have any investors. We didn't have any backing. We did the whole thing ourselves. And, you know, my conviction is as high as it was back then.

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

And I think he's my biggest inspiration for that reason because his odds of pulling off what he did was so low, but he knew he could do it. He knew. And I feel the same. Our odds of pulling this off were slim to none. We didn't have any investors. We didn't have any backing. We did the whole thing ourselves. And, you know, my conviction is as high as it was back then.

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

And I think he's my biggest inspiration for that reason because his odds of pulling off what he did was so low, but he knew he could do it. He knew. And I feel the same. Our odds of pulling this off were slim to none. We didn't have any investors. We didn't have any backing. We did the whole thing ourselves. And, you know, my conviction is as high as it was back then.

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

Even though there's been times of doubt and even though there's been hard times, I still know where we're going and that's something that has always been inspiring to me.

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

Even though there's been times of doubt and even though there's been hard times, I still know where we're going and that's something that has always been inspiring to me.

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

Even though there's been times of doubt and even though there's been hard times, I still know where we're going and that's something that has always been inspiring to me.

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

In a way, no, I'm almost going to talk to myself from 20 years ago now, right? Because I really feel like I needed advice and everyone does.

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

In a way, no, I'm almost going to talk to myself from 20 years ago now, right? Because I really feel like I needed advice and everyone does.

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

In a way, no, I'm almost going to talk to myself from 20 years ago now, right? Because I really feel like I needed advice and everyone does.

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

single-handedly the best advice i can give a young entrepreneur is to stay grounded stay humble don't let all the outside influence take control of your brain because in this space like it's pretty crazy knowing you can go from not having a lot to making a lot of money really quickly but i really believe in many ways that was detrimental because you start to lose focus on what you're doing and you focus on other things and i think this is so important but if you're going to build something and you're going to build a product