KJ Singh
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Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, I did.
Um, I think it was the kind of itch I've always had on the engineering side to go out and build something and, uh, and be a part of something bigger.
And I realized a lot of the people that I was kind of always aspiring to kind of be like on wall street, um, ultimately when I met them actually weren't that happy.
I'm not going to give any names.
Oh, come on, dude.
Shed light on people's unhappiness.
But I think some of the top people, some of the top traders at different firms, you would think that watching movies like Wolf of Wall Street and other movies that Hollywood tries to kind of portray as these kind of mega kind of superstars on Wall Street.
And when you meet them, they're actually miserable with their life and not that happy and always kind of like...
Right, right, right.
Got it.
Okay, sorry.
So you have the hedge fund folks, and then you have the traders as well.
And, and, you know, I think a lot of that hard work transits over to the startup world, but it's much more meaningful work.
And that's kind of what, you know, kind of attracted me out here to the Silicon Valley and to startups.
So I was 24.
24.
Salary, so at that time, it was, so trading is kind of based on, you know, you have your base salary and then you also have kind of what profits you make, right?
The percentage of that.