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'''John "Fawce" Fawcett''' is a serial entrepreneur who founded [[Advent Software#Current Software Products|Tamale Software]] and [[Quantopian]]. He is presently CEO of the latter.<ref name="FawcettWired"/><ref name="Cohan2013"/> |
'''John "Fawce" Fawcett''' (born 1977) is a serial entrepreneur who founded [[Advent Software#Current Software Products|Tamale Software]] and [[Quantopian]]. He is presently CEO of the latter.<ref name="FawcettWired"/><ref name="Cohan2013"/><ref name="Clarke2013"/> |
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Fawcett attended [[Phillips Academy]] and completed a BS in Materials Science at [[Harvard University]] in 1999.<ref name="Cohan2013"/> |
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Revision as of 21:49, 23 March 2015
John "Fawce" Fawcett (born 1977) is a serial entrepreneur who founded Tamale Software and Quantopian. He is presently CEO of the latter.[1][2][3]
Education
Fawcett attended Phillips Academy and completed a BS in Materials Science at Harvard University in 1999.[2]
Career
His first jobs were as a programmer for Scient, working on video coding, and as an analyst and programmer for a hedge fund. In 2002 he founded Tamale Software, which developed software for fundamental stock analysis. Advent Software acquired Tamale for $70 million in 2008. He co-founded Quantopian in August 2011. It aims to create a crowd-sourced hedge fund using a two-sided market for freelance quantitative analysts (algorithm developers) and investors (algorithm users).[2] As of 2015, Quantopian has raised about $24 million in investments from Spark Capital, Global Electronic Trading Company, Khosla Ventures, Wicklow Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others.[4][5]
Publications
Writing for Wired magazine, Fawcett posits that Quantopian can also be used as a MOOC-like platform for higher education.[6]
References
- ^ Fawcett, John. "John Fawcett's Page". WIRED magazine. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
John "Fawce" Fawcett is founder and CEO of Quantopian...
- ^ a b c Cohan, Peter (1 July 2013). "Quantopian Wants To Turn Stock Trading Algorithmic". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
- ^ Clarke, Paul (2013-04-16). "This firm is trying to engage, and hire, quants". eFinancialCareers (in en_UK). Retrieved 2015-03-23.
John Fawcett, 35, ...
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ Alden, William (2013-10-02). "Quantopian Raises $6.7 Million to Help Traders Make Algorithms". The New York Times : DealBook. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
Quantopian ... announced on Wednesday that it had raised a financing round from Khosla Ventures and Spark Capital.
- ^ "Quantopian". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
$15M / Series B - Oct 16, 2014 - Investors: Wicklow Capital Spark Capital Khosla Ventures Bessemer Venture Partners
- ^ Fawcett, John (2013-06-14). "Hacking Your Education: The Next Generation of Students". WIRED magazine. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
...Quantopian can be another resource for smart people interested in quantitative finance, that aren't necessarily taking the traditional quant path of earning a PhD...
External links
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