Chris Josephs
Co-Founder, Autopilot. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Chris Josephs is the co-founder of Autopilot, an automated investing app that replicates high-profile stock trades. He created the viral Pelosi Tracker account to monitor political trading activity and drive app adoption.
2shows
3appearances
60statements
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11supported
1contradicted
85%fully supported
1said about them ↓ Everything Chris Josephs said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Josephs: Marjorie Taylor Greene bought major tech stocks surrounding tariff announcements
“She started buying the day after they paused it. The day before and the day after, on the eighth and ninth. She bought Apple, she bought Qualcomm, she bought Nvidia, AMD, ASML.”
Josephs: About $350M in capital follows Nancy Pelosi's trades on Autopilot
“Since then she has probably three hundred fifty million dollars following her, which is crazy. She's got her own little mini hedge fund.”
Banning congressional stock trading harms Autopilot but helps society
“I honestly hope they get banned. Like they shouldn't be able to, if they get banned, it's bad for our business, but I think it's better for society and it's better for the trustworthiness of our government.”
Josephs: Autopilot's Nancy Pelosi tracker outperformed the S&P 500 by 30%
“Like, in 2024, for example Our Pelosi tracker that we track her filings, not the actual days of the trade, obviously, and she was up 54%. She outperformed the SPY by 30%.”
Josephs: Richard Burr sold $1.4M in stocks after publishing reassuring COVID-19 op-ed
“He called up his financial advisor, in his, him and his financial advisor, they liquidated their portfolio, their retirement account, a week after he wrote that op-ed telling the world to kind of stay calm. Sold off 1.4 million dollars of his entire retirement…”
Josephs: Skeptical that Congress will successfully pass a stock trading ban
“I think now is the time that a ban could actually be passed, and with Autopilot, we're fully bipartisan. We will We will help AOC. She deserves a lot of credit for that. But I am a bit skeptical that something we'll get through. I think there's a lot of challe…”
Josephs: Majority of politicians tracked by Autopilot outperform the market
“I haven't checked on him in a while, but the other politicians that we do track, the majority of them do outperform, but this year is going to be an interesting one because of the different market dynamics.”
Josephs: Faceless TikTok growth hacking fails for high-trust financial products
“There's a, you probably see it on Twitter all the time, all these kind of young kind of, they call them cracked out engineers, growth hacking TikTok with the faceless videos and yada, yada, yada, and that stuff works. But that doesn't necessarily really work f…”
Josephs: Kalshi and prediction markets will be right more often than media
“And my bet is Calci's gonna be right more often than not, because it's, like, that's just the way of the land. That's how predictive markets work.”
Josephs: Large marketing budgets make creative teams cut corners on creativity
“If you give a creative team a big budget, they naturally and, like, instinctively are gonna cut corners around creativity to drive growth.”
Josephs: Autopilot is bipartisan and targets more Republicans than Democrats
“We are very bipartisan. We call out more Republicans probably than Democrats, but we just have the Pelosi tracker name.”
Josephs: Autopilot planted a fake Nancy Pelosi at a UFC fight
“We literally did send a fake Pelosi to the fight. She was sitting there in the front row with Mike Malak. There's all these pieces of content around her. The New York post already kind of took it up. They created an article about it.”
Attaching notable names is the only way to capture user attention
“The only way you can really get people to pay attention to what you want to do, in my opinion, was getting notable names”
Operating a public figure tracker avoids influencer scandal risk
“They had a spokesperson for their brand. It kind of represented what they did, but the problem with it is you're then beholden to whatever happens to David Dobrik. So one scandal comes out, he's gets in trouble. Your brand gets in trouble by having us kind of …”
Rebranding a personal TikTok to a corporate brand increases clicks 5X
“Before you get big and before you launch a product, if you create a personal brand, more people want to follow personal brands, but the downside is you don't get as many clicks. Once you have the larger account, you switch it, we switch it to join autopilot an…”
Autopilot has all major meme accounts on its cap table
“We have all the major meme accounts on our cap table.”
Josephs: Twitter content lacks the algorithmic lifespan of Instagram and TikTok
“One of the downsides of creating content on Twitter is it has a lifespan on it. So when you tweet about it, you're not gonna go on the For You page and see a tweet from Nancy Pelosi Tracker six months ago, but on Instagram and TikTok you can.”
Josephs: Marjorie Taylor Greene files stock trades in a reasonable timeframe
“To her credit, she's one of the few politicians that actually files her dates, trades, in a reasonable time frame.”
Josephs: 86% of Americans support banning congressional stock trading
“86% of Americans want them banned.”
Josephs: JD Vance divested individual stocks to hold Bitcoin, indexes, and gold
“Like, to JD Vance's credit, I think he divested out of his individual stocks. He now only owns Bitcoin, S&P, QQQ, Dow and some gold. So he is very, kind of, aligned with America. If America wins, his portfolio will win. But he's not in, you know, he's not in m…”
Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads
“I think we have, right, 2.5 million downloads. Six figures of active subscribers, and then on the AUM, because we're a registered investment advisor, this is all public. What's fascinating, what kind of, I'm proud of, is like, People trust us with their money.…”
Josephs: Autopilot generates eight figures in revenue with consistent MoM growth
“We do eight figures in revenue. We aren't public with how much, but Eight figures in revenue. It's growing month over month. We've never really had a down month.”
Josephs: Autopilot Is Backed by Craft Ventures and Nomad Ventures
“We haven't done a fundraising announcement, so we're backed by Kraft. They've been helpful. Nomad Venture is out in LA. I love those guys. Yep, I was just chatting with James on the way over. They've been very, very helpful. And they were our seed investors.”
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| STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Co-Founder, Autopilot | 2 | 32 | 100% 5/5 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
 SOURCERYLEDGER | Co-Founder, Autopilot | 1 | 28 | 75% 6/8 | full record on Sourcery → |