Christina Qi

Databento, CEO

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Career Highlights

• Started a quant hedge fund in 2012 from my dorm room

• Traded $7.1B per day at our peak

• Started Databento to solve fund data-related issues

• Learned a lot from past failures and experiences

Failures

• Wound down the fund after a particularly bad year (-12% returns) and data-related issues

Hobbies

Anime (recently watched Heavenly Delusion), Video games, Rock climbing, Skiing (mostly falling), BBQing (lit the grill on fire x2), Board games

Talk to me about

• Startup struggles

• Lessons learned as a 2nd-time founder

• Mental health

• Work-life balance

I want to talk to you about

• Challenges in AI, finance, and data.

• Current fundraising environment

• DEI

• Privilege