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Episode 157 Fawce from Quantopian during Boston Fintech Week

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Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode John talks with Fawce, Co Founder & CEO of Quantopian.  This is one of a few interviews that we recorded on site during Boston fintech week.  Fawce talked on how he went from working in his shed to raising $48,000,000 in venture funding.  It all started with a question that he asked himself constantly and couldn’t not answer which was, what if firms could break the 150 Quant limit which seems to be a long lasting self imposed ceiling, instead, what if they could have 10,000?  The implications could change everything. This guiding question if answered could empower firms to get thousands of the smartest people in the world to focus on a particular firms