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by neom 1158 days ago
I always like looking these folks up on youtube to see if they have any interviews, this guy did talk for Chicago Techweek, and his story starts remarkably similar to another tech dude who was recently charged with fraud... goes something like this:

(when I was 12) I found some discrepancy in the price of a security, so I wrote a simple program that traded on the discrepancy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPBoIyA11TI

Also this one is amusing given the context "you win if you're not afraid to break rules and do things the way they're best done in the new reality"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAOa-4vnFWg

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Great videos. First video, about 22:50: "and we had a new challenge, OK? For the last three or four years our, our distribution has run sold out. So anytime we go and get a sale and we go and create inventory, we know it's going to be bought."

Meanwhile, from the DOJ release: "According to evidence presented at trial, Shah, Agarwal, and Purdy sold advertising inventory the company did not have to Outcome’s clients, then under-delivered on its advertising campaigns. Despite these under-deliveries, the company still invoiced its clients as if it had delivered in full."

Wow.

You’ve gotta sell yourself on the lie.