Beat Wall Street with purpose-built AI for finance

How retail investors can compete with the big Wall Street firms using artificial intelligence.

Author

Clint Betts
November 26, 2024

With AI set to disrupt everything, why wouldn’t it also be used to help retail investors trade with the same tools as the big firms on Wall Street?

In today’s email:

BRIGHTWAVE CEO MIKE CONOVER

Investing smarter with artificial intelligence

Mike Conover is the CEO and founder of Brightwave, the AI research assistant that generates insightful, trustworthy financial analysis on any subject. A pioneer in artificial intelligence, Mike established and led open-source LLM engineering at Databricks, where he created Dolly. This language model showed the world how easy it is to build LLMs that can talk and reason.

Mike has built AI systems & products for over fifteen years, including tours of duty at Workday as Director of Financials Machine Learning, SkipFlag (acquired by Workday), and LinkedIn. He has a Ph.D. in complexity science from Indiana University, and his work has been featured in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Nature Communications, MIT Technology Review, and NPR.

NANIT CEO ANUSHKA SALINAS

Changing the way parents view their babies’ wellness

Anushka Salinas is a visionary leader in the tech and fashion industries, currently serving as the CEO of Nanit. This high-growth parenting tech company has changed how parents view their babies' wellness through the world's most advanced baby monitor and parenting products.

Before her role at Nanit, Anushka was President & COO at Rent the Runway (RTR), reshaping the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by introducing dynamic ownership models and empowering women to embrace their best selves every day. During her tenure at RTR, Anushka was instrumental in overseeing all operational facets of the company, contributing significantly to its remarkable growth and successful IPO in October 2021. She built Rent the Runway’s first machine learning team in 2017 and dozens of algorithms that drove improvements to the business economics and customer experience at scale. With 11 years of experience at RTR spanning two distinct periods, Anushka's leadership played a pivotal role in shaping the company's trajectory.

Before her tenure at RTR, Anushka honed her business management and finance expertise at Hudson's Bay Company, where she efficiently managed a $300 million profit and loss (P&L) portfolio. Additionally, her tenure at Resonance Companies saw her spearheading commerce initiatives for an early-stage supply chain and fashion startup, further showcasing her versatility and strategic acumen in diverse business environments. Anushka received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania cum laude and MBA from Columbia Business School. She resides in New York City with her husband and sons, Shayan and Raphael.