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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.”
Opinion
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…”
Assertion Supported
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%.”
Assertion Supported
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.”
Insight
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…”
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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.”
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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.…”
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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.”
Disclosure
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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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.”
Disclosure
Josephs: Autopilot has raised approximately $6M to $7M to date
“To date, I think we've raised around six or seven million.”
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Josephs: Autopilot Generates 70 Million Monthly Social Media Impressions
“We probably bring in, like, I would say probably, like, just to be conservative, like, seventy million impressions a month across all of our stuff.”
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Josephs: Autopilot's Instagram account generates more impressions than its Twitter
“We run an Instagram account with a million followers. It's called the Politician Trade Tracker. And that thing gets, if not more impressions than Pelosi Tracker on Twitter.”
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Josephs: Autopilot has distributed $500,000 in creator payouts to date
“And we've done half a million of creator payouts so far.”
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Josephs: Top creators on Autopilot generate over six figures annually
“Our, one of the businesses on our platform makes over like, easily over six figures a year, and it's just like, they're putting stuff up, we don't want to be too public with the numbers, but these guys are doing well, and like, there's random people on Twitter…”
Assertion Contradicted
Josephs: Autopilot has $40M copying an AI-generated ChatGPT investment portfolio
“That got us the top 15 in the App Store. And I think now we have forty million dollars following that GPT portfolio.”
Prediction Partly held up
Josephs: Autopilot Will Reach $1 Billion in Traded AUM by Year-End
“I'm confident and I'm excited that we'll be able to build momentum from current assets of half a billion to connected assets, which should hopefully get us to a billion by the end of the year.”
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Josephs: Autopilot has 9-10 creator portfolios live and 30-40 in queue
“And we've been able to now scale this to now where we have nine or 10 pilots is what we call them. Probably like 30 to 40 waiting to launch.”
Disclosure
Josephs: Nomad Ventures wrote Autopilot's seed check after eavesdropping in a coffee shop
“James from Nomad was right next to me and just tapped me on the shoulder, and he's like, take my card, this is kind of interesting, and then a couple weeks later, he wrote us the first check in the momentum to get the seed investment done.”
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Josephs: Autopilot's AI-generated Pelosi video gained 5M organic views
“So, like, at the end of the day, that video that took two hours got us five million of organic views.”