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“So we went out to like professional women's communities, right? We parted with like Girlboss, for example. Sofia Moroso's thing. People who've never invested before, Just went in front of them cold and be like, we built this. If you want to invest, we think th…”

“We were like the first to do the whole first trading platform to do fractional shares”

“We were the first to actually do that real time thing that didn't exist before.”

“That is really what kind of clicked with people. That's when you start to see, you know, daily active usage that was like 60, 70% on the down mile ratio basis, right? And super, super high retention, super high engagement”

“And, you know, over time, a lot of people basically almost all, I guess, kind of copied that feature inside a year, maybe 18 months.”

“The user base was growing 50 to a hundred percent every month. And that compounds a lot when you do that for three years in a row, and so you're just really trying to, like, scale the platform”

“We are one of the few few ones left standing because I kid you not, 98% of them have closed down. And maybe there was only about a hundred, so, like, that's pretty easy, man.”

“Funnily enough, because we're the only ones that still have that, and so obviously that's been a great differentiator for the last couple of years, especially as yields have gone up”

“There was like a one specific 18 month period where I think it went up 25 or 30 X or something.”

“GameStop was like, we doubled in 40 hours or something.”

“In the millions.”

“And our first LP was Lehman Brothers. [286] Podcast Host: Oh, wow. [286] Podcast Host: Ok. [287] Jannick Malling: Well, which we never saw the money, but they signed.”

“Eight years later, we'd scaled that to a multi-billion a day volume platform, sold it to a public traded company in the UK.”

“Buying the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 at the time would cost you 15,000 dollars. So that's why people got to this thing of like, yeah, I need to save up money and then make the big leap.”

“Like we launch it after Labor Day. We've got all the dashboards set up. And literally it's just one of these things where you go and you refresh the dashboard after the first day, after the first week, and All the metrics are just up and to the right. Five, 10…”

“How fast did you hit maybe a million MAUs or whatever? Probably 18 months, two years. I mean, GameStop was a step change, right? So it was all around there. So yeah, call it those kind of 18 months.”

“We announced today, as you could tell from your last, we are the new sponsors of the Aston Martin and Formula One team.”

“Now folks are coming in with hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in their accounts.”