Brendan Wood

If you don't have the ability to place orders, that's another thing that's a deal breaker. It's like, why would you even integrate with a trading API if it doesn't trade, right? We realized pretty quickly that we don't need to support every broker in the world.

If you don't have the ability to place orders, that's another thing that's a deal breaker. It's like, why would you even integrate with a trading API if it doesn't trade, right? We realized pretty quickly that we don't need to support every broker in the world.

If you don't have the ability to place orders, that's another thing that's a deal breaker. It's like, why would you even integrate with a trading API if it doesn't trade, right? We realized pretty quickly that we don't need to support every broker in the world.

We can pick a few of the big ones in the US market and a few other markets that are important to us and just do a really good job at those. Just build a reliable product that has the features that our customers need and we can get to the rest of the market eventually.

We can pick a few of the big ones in the US market and a few other markets that are important to us and just do a really good job at those. Just build a reliable product that has the features that our customers need and we can get to the rest of the market eventually.

We can pick a few of the big ones in the US market and a few other markets that are important to us and just do a really good job at those. Just build a reliable product that has the features that our customers need and we can get to the rest of the market eventually.

But we can only do that if we do a good job at keeping the scope minimal and having a high quality product, even though it's limited in terms of coverage. And that really has been the focus for a long time because of the way that we built the MVP.

But we can only do that if we do a good job at keeping the scope minimal and having a high quality product, even though it's limited in terms of coverage. And that really has been the focus for a long time because of the way that we built the MVP.

But we can only do that if we do a good job at keeping the scope minimal and having a high quality product, even though it's limited in terms of coverage. And that really has been the focus for a long time because of the way that we built the MVP.

From a pure engineering perspective, it may have been better to go back and redesign the API from the ground up and rebuild the back end from the ground up with some of the assumptions that we're changing now that we're allowing third parties to access the API. Would have reduced the technical debt that we're still dealing with today.

From a pure engineering perspective, it may have been better to go back and redesign the API from the ground up and rebuild the back end from the ground up with some of the assumptions that we're changing now that we're allowing third parties to access the API. Would have reduced the technical debt that we're still dealing with today.

From a pure engineering perspective, it may have been better to go back and redesign the API from the ground up and rebuild the back end from the ground up with some of the assumptions that we're changing now that we're allowing third parties to access the API. Would have reduced the technical debt that we're still dealing with today.

But we wouldn't have been able to validate demand quickly enough. Probably wouldn't have taken us a better part of a year to actually go launch something like that. And we were able to do it in a couple months and launch with our first few customers. Yeah, in terms of like how we look at the roadmap going forward, it's driven by customer feedback.

But we wouldn't have been able to validate demand quickly enough. Probably wouldn't have taken us a better part of a year to actually go launch something like that. And we were able to do it in a couple months and launch with our first few customers. Yeah, in terms of like how we look at the roadmap going forward, it's driven by customer feedback.

But we wouldn't have been able to validate demand quickly enough. Probably wouldn't have taken us a better part of a year to actually go launch something like that. And we were able to do it in a couple months and launch with our first few customers. Yeah, in terms of like how we look at the roadmap going forward, it's driven by customer feedback.

Usually customers will tell us if there's a broker that's very important to them, or if they'll say, you have trading at these institutions, but you don't have it on this one yet. What do we do to get that? So then we can focus on those things. But it's largely a question of which effort we put in is going to drive the needle the most for our customers.

Usually customers will tell us if there's a broker that's very important to them, or if they'll say, you have trading at these institutions, but you don't have it on this one yet. What do we do to get that? So then we can focus on those things. But it's largely a question of which effort we put in is going to drive the needle the most for our customers.

Usually customers will tell us if there's a broker that's very important to them, or if they'll say, you have trading at these institutions, but you don't have it on this one yet. What do we do to get that? So then we can focus on those things. But it's largely a question of which effort we put in is going to drive the needle the most for our customers.

A lot of the core people are the same. We've expanded the team. We've doubled in size. Some people have left. Some people have joined. In terms of what we look for, we essentially have a positive filter on intelligence and grit. That's what we really look for, first of all. Like, how quickly can you solve novel problems that you face with you've never come across before?

A lot of the core people are the same. We've expanded the team. We've doubled in size. Some people have left. Some people have joined. In terms of what we look for, we essentially have a positive filter on intelligence and grit. That's what we really look for, first of all. Like, how quickly can you solve novel problems that you face with you've never come across before?