Brian Schardt: He Killed 250K Users to Bet on Nancy Pelosi
He was 24, eating at Michelin-star restaurants in New York. He'd never been more miserable.
Brian Schardt was Director of Engineering at Warner Music Group; parties, money, everything he thought he wanted. Then he flew to Argentina for a wedding and watched people with nothing laugh harder than anyone he knew in Manhattan. He quit from a dinner table that night. No two weeks notice. Just an email: "This is my last day."
He came home and built a stock trading app with his brother. Then in one week, everything collapsed: the market crashed, his investor threatened to sue, his girlfriend left…
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