5 days agoWork-life balance is bullsh*tFor successful individuals, achieving a work-life balance is a luxury often associated with those born into wealth. Let me explain. There must be a clear inverse correlation between success (let’s say measured by wealth) and the size of your circle of friends. If you want to be at the top…Work Life Balance2 min readWork Life Balance2 min read
Sep 10Target Market Analysis with the help of LLMsAfter working on OpenBB for over 2 years, we learned which markets to go after and which markets to ignore. You may think that this is intuition, but it’s actually the data that you gathered from talking with 100+ users and learning from others in the industry. However, people who…Target Market9 min readTarget Market9 min read
Aug 20OpenBB 2 year anniversary 🎉Today is OpenBB 2 years anniversary of our incorporation. So it’s important to look back and understand the magnitude of what we achieved in 24 months. In that time we’ve had: 100k+ downloads of our installer since we started tracking it 2.5M bot commands have been run on Discord and…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Aug 9How to handle equity top-ups at a seed stage startupPreviously, I shared how we handle equity at OpenBB in this post. This blog post will continue that discussion and go over how we approach equity top-ups at OpenBB. …Equity7 min readEquity7 min read
Aug 3How to handle equity at a seed-stage startup from Silicon ValleyAs a startup founder and CEO, you need to wear multiple hats, from engineering and product to design, marketing, and even finance. Today, I’m going through the details of how we handle equity at OpenBB. …Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
Jul 29Keep track of your startup metrics using a custom iOS widgetIf you have a high level role in your organization, you are likely obsessed over a few metrics that act as the north star for your company. Whether that is MRR, number of customers, GitHub stars, AUM, .. …Open Source3 min readOpen Source3 min read
Jul 21How to Use OpenAI to Extract Insights from Team SurveyMotivation I’ve been wanting to play with the OpenAI API for a while, but I’ve had higher priority tasks. Yesterday (4th of July), I thought that I could use the day to do this, but I didn’t want to just try it in a notebook. …OpenAI8 min readOpenAI8 min read
Jul 16Why the need for an open source investment research platform?Having a closed source OpenBB Terminal was never on the table. OPEN SOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE The OpenBB Terminal is the platform it is today due to its open source nature. Launched almost 2.5 years ago, the interest on this platform was clear — aggregating an impressive 4000 stars on GitHub in under 24 hours…Open Source4 min readOpen Source4 min read
Jul 6From Open Source to Open StartupBeing open source isn’t enough, at OpenBB we want to accelerate the transparency in the financial world. I want to start this blogpost by introducing the concept of an open startup. As this phrase can often be interpreted differently, here’s the standard definition that ChatGPT gave me: “An open startup…Open Source4 min readOpen Source4 min read
Jun 29Employees are leaving? Be proactive about employee feedbackThis blogpost shows the measures we are taking to ensure we have high employee engagement at OpenBB through a periodic feedback survey. When we started OpenBB, I was absolutely obsessed about our product. All my focus and time was dedicated to building our suite of products (OpenBB Terminal, OpenBB SDK…Employee Engagement5 min readEmployee Engagement5 min read
