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Derek Capo

Chief Operating Officer, Starquix · 1 appearance on the record.

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Derek Capo is an entrepreneur and former hedge fund analyst who founded Next Step China, an educational study-abroad program provider. He later entered the cryptocurrency and fintech space as CEO of TokenPay and co-founder of the decentralized exchange platform eFin.

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4 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Opinion
Derek Capo: Activist hedge fund strategies harm businesses long-term
“And the thing is that actually hurts the businesses in the longterm, like really hurts the businesses in the longterm. And I think yeah, you know, makes their investors money and stuff. But at the end of the day, it actually hurts future shareholders.”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 5:19 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
Disclosure
Capo: Hedge fund got repeatedly stopped out shorting housing stocks before crash
“What ended up happening was the last year I was there, we were shorting housing stocks. We were shorting mortgage insurance companies. It just kept going up. They just, they kept on going up on us. We kept on getting stopped out”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 11:49 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
What-if
Capo: Working at a hedge fund cost him early internet marketing opportunities
“Because I worked at the hedge fund, I built up business skills, and I didn't build up marketing and kind of hustle skills. I missed out on a lot of ways to make money”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 24:44 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
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Capo: JetBlue trade netted $3M to $4M in two weeks
“My biggest win, ah, was I think buying JetBlue. It was actually, ah, it was actually early in, in the time when they were still growing, and I think I made them within, I think in about a week or two, I made them like three or four million dollars.”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 2:20 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
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Capo: Peregrine Software holding produced $9M to $10M profit
“There was another one called Peregrine Software, where my boss had had the position for a long time, and I had been in charge to start monitoring the company. I went over to meet the CEO in Atlanta and I came back and I said, no, we're not selling the position…”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 2:35 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
Insight
Derek Capo: Hedge fund trades depend on 3-to-6-month catalysts
“Well, usually whenever we make investments we always try to look for a catalyst that's going to happen within the next three to six months. It's going to get the stock to move higher, whether it's a corporate event whether it's earning surprises, whether it's …”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 4:26 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
Disclosure
Derek Capo: Everest Capital Main Fund Managed $300M-$400M Around 2004
“The main fund at that time, I think, was about 300 or four hundred million dollars, and we put about a one or two percent position, which basically means two percent of the entire fund was invested into buying shares of the company, and so two percent of like …”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 6:16 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
Disclosure
Derek Capo: Starting base salary at Everest Capital was $30,000
“Oh, at that time, it was 30,000 dollars.”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 7:58 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
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Capo: Top-school peers at Everest Capital made $100k+ base plus 2-3x bonuses
“Everybody that was my co-worker were basically people from Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, you know, UPenn, you name it. They got paid a hundred and something thousand dollars a year, and then they were paid the bonuses, and the bonuses could have been a certain …”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 8:54 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
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Capo: China study abroad business generated $2.2M+ from 300+ customers
“So the average, yeah, the average is about seven or eight. I'm saying in the summers, we would have kids that would pay us like four or five grand, and then we would have in the fall, we would have people that would pay us between seven to 12,000 dollars on av…”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 14:07 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209
Disclosure
Capo: eFin founders invested $50k and plan another $100k+
“We've so far put in 50,000 dollars and we're actually going to start putting in another hundred and something thousand dollars.”
Derek Capo Mar 30, 2016 ▶ 17:34 From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo of eFin EP 209

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From $10m+ Hedge Fund Details to $2.4m Travel Company To FinTech Startup with Derek Capo o Mar 30, 2016 15m
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