S3 E4: Building Stripe for Investing: Scaling Alpaca’s Trading APIs Globally with Yoshi Yokokawa

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Aug 11, 2020 · 19m

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshi Yokokawa started his career at Leimen Brothers in the US. In doing so, he was exposed to the fragility of the economies, yet saw how all things were connected and potential for areas of automation - IE, where things didn't need a human hand. A marathon runner, triathlete and yoga teacher, he attempts to understand himself physically, spiritually and mentally. When he set out on a venture of his own, he originally started building deep neural net prediction models for trading funds and hedge funds. In doing so, he quickly figured out that in order to scale this…