Caitlyn (founder of MarginLens)

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Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant · Ex-BofA Quant Builds AI Margin Platform from Scratch · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

I think like starting at the banks is good if you need that structure.

I think there's a lot of structure to your projects and like there's a lot of it's um you know banks are very like bureaucratic in in their structure.

You have someone you report to, you have your teammates that you work with, you um can split up divvy up the work a lot more easily that way too.

Where it when you work in a startup environment though, a lot of it's on maybe you and one other person or whoever else and it's just like very um

It's I I think it's I think in a lot of ways it's easier to have that structure, especially early in your career.

Yeah.

I mean I I think like when I think back at working at the banks at JP Morgan and Bank of America, um, I have like pretty good, you know, things to say and I thought it was great.

But I just I think that I was just always very entrepreneurial.

And so if you are more like that, I do think working at a startup or like at a

Or working on your own might be like a better fit once you're done there.

But you learn invaluable knowledge for sure about the about the business, about the the trading industry or whatever indust part of the industry you're embedded in at the banks.

So my undergraduate degree is in computer science, uh, from Loyola University in Chicago.

Um, and how I got into it was a really interesting story.

I so I started off my career or I started off my I'm sorry, started my education, um, at Loyola as a pre-med.

Uh this was like 2014 to 2015, and then it just came to me out of nowhere where I was like,

What if you went into computer science?

Like I don't know.

It just it was so funny 'cause I was just like sitting there and I just the best ideas sometimes come to you when you're not expecting it 'cause that's what happened with me.

I just

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