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So alternative data is actually been pretty popular in the hedge fund industry and among professional investors in general for the last decade or so it's around a $2 billion market. The first thing I just want to really ask you, like, how do you come up with this you know, really cool, interesting datasets ideas. Yoshi: I've been looking at your website and like, you know, I just see many kinds of funky, very unique data sets. And then we provide that on an easy-to-use platform where retail investors can sign up and start tapping into these data sets. So, what we do is we basically scrape interesting data sets from around the web, things that we think might be useful for making better investment decisions. Quiver Quantitative is an alternative data platform and specifically, we are an alternative data platform designed for retail investors. So my name is James Kardatzke and the CEO of Quiver Quantitative. I know we have a lot to talk about, but firstly, can you introduce yourself and about your company? Yoshi: I really wanted to say thank you for taking your time to appear on our podcast today, FinTech Underground. Offering alternative data sets such as sentiment analysis of the popular Reddit forum wallstreetbets to corporate jet flights to political beta users can find alternative data, spanning a variety of interests along with an easy to use API and an upcoming mobile app Quiver Quantitative aims to bridge the information gap between wall street and non-professional investors. Along with our host, Yoshi CEO and co-founder of Alpaca, this episode is not one to be missed. I'm incredibly excited for today's episode, featuring James, the CEO, and co-founder of Quiver Quantitative and an up-and-coming alternative data platform. In each episode, we aim to explore a different area within FinTech. Welcome back to FinTech underground by Alpaca. And with that being said, let's get started. Jason: Welcome to FinTech Underground by Alpaca, a podcast devoted to stock trading API from trading with algorithms to connecting apps, to building out services Alpaca is built for developers and traders.