Co-founder @ Accountable Finance, allowing anyone to build and test quantitative investment strategies with AI. Previously sold Pacifica Labs to UHG Ventures.
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2008
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Big milestone for us today: Accountable Finance is officially on Product Hunt.
For a long time now we've been focused on bringing professional-grade investing tools to to retail investors. The result is a full-featured platform that makes systematic investing remarkably easy.
Beyond that, a breadth of tools give you immediate insight into your portfolio: comparisons against industry benchmarks, total dividends, yield, and yield on cost, on both a per-position basis and across your whole portfolio.
Since we're live on Product Hunt, we'd love to hear your thoughts. If you have a few minutes, head on over to join the conversation and see the tools in action:
producthunt.com/products/acc….
The last year+ has seen an incredible impact as the result of AI working its way into everything we do. Now, you just need to be able to describe an investing hypothesis and we'll turn it into testable quantitative strategies that you can deploy and execute.
11 years ago my co-founder and I launched Pacifica — a mobile app for stress, anxiety, and depression.
At its peak, over 4 million people downloaded it.
Last month, it quietly disappeared from the app stores. I didn’t know it was happening, and I was more emotional about it than I expected.
It reminded me how early startups are obsessed with real people and real problems and how that focus can change as companies grow.
No big lesson. Just gratitude for what it meant while it existed.
Direct indexing the S&P 500 - Are the Mag 7 Overvalued? youtube.com/shorts/H44T-mcq8…
$TEN: 6% yield, 147% dividend CAGR over 3 years
Greek tanker company trading at ~0.4x NAV. Seemed too good.🧵
Bear case:
• Tanker rates are cyclical — 30% on spot
• $1.9B debt (1.1x D/E)
• Petrobras concentration risk
• Energy transition headwind
• Shipping stocks always trade below NAV for a reason
I love that you can get a breakdown of the S&P's factor performance data. Looking at October, here's what's been working and what hasn't 🧵
If you want to build your own factor models and test them against historical data, that's what we built Accountable Finance for. Direct indexing with backtesting across different factor combinations.
DM me if you want a gift code to try it out.
Check out the S&P 500 factor performance report here: spglobal.com/spdji/en/docume…