Meet Denis Dariotis, the Billion-Dollar GoQuant Founder Who Started Trading at 9 Years Old
Denis Dariotis, the 22-year-old founder of GoQuant, began trading at age nine and built his billion-dollar crypto trading software firm by automating strategies.Summary
Denis Dariotis, the 22-year-old founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency trading software firm GoQuant, started trading at age nine, recalling having to check his portfolio during third grade. Attracted to the stock market symbols on TV, he taught himself programming, including Python and C++, by age 12 to automate data scanning for trading strategies. By 15, he was consulting for a major Canadian bank, licensing his quantitative strategies. Dariotis then noticed the lack of institutional-grade infrastructure in crypto markets due to fragmented liquidity and latency issues, leading him to build the entire infrastructure stack for GoQuant. The company, which secured significant seed funding, now handles over $1 billion in daily trading volume and has expanded to include a dark pool, GoDark, and a lending platform, GoCredit. Dariotis advises aspiring entrepreneurs to remain flexible and build connected ecosystems rather than focusing only on product silos.
(Source：CoinDesk)