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Christina Qi, SB ’13: All the Books in One Language—On Harmonizing the World’s Market Data
Christina Qi, SB ’13, is the co-founder and CEO of Databento and the first undergraduate Sloanie to appear on this podcast. Her path runs from day-trading out of a Harvard dorm room, where her HFT firm Domeyard peaked at 25,000 trades a day, to founding Databento and nearly losing it: a bridge round raised with almost negative runway, investors who signed financing docs and never wired, and finally a $97M Series B that made it all look inevitable.
The heart of the conversation is what Databento actually does and why it wins: harmonizing market data across exchanges so that, in her phrase…
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