My Interview with FT Alphaville

Stacy-Marie Ishmael of the Financial Times published a wide-ranging interview with me on FT Alphaville yesterday concerning Monitor110, Information Arbitrage and extracting investable information from the Internet. It is likely the most in-depth and comprehensive discussion of my background and current passions that I've given, and Stacy-Marie did an amazing job capturing my words in the context of a long, rambling discussion (she asked pointed questions - I did the rambling).

I also called out four of my favorite bloggers when pressed - Fred Wilson of A VC, Mike Seneadza aka Trader Mike, Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture and Guy Kawasaki of How to Change the World. I told Stacy-Marie that I read about 200 blogs and have many favorite bloggers, but I couldn't include all of them in my response. Sorry to those not specifically mentioned. You know who you are and you know I'm a fan.

Comments

[Roger]

Yaser, at present, we are completely focused on marketing to and supporting Institutional Investors. Individual investors will follow at a future time.

Ian, the answer is yes. We view Europe as a key market and our tool as being as relevant in Europe and Asia as it is in the US. That said, we are initially focusing on the US before rolling out to other geographies. We want to make sure we can provide world-class service to our customers and refining the sales and service model with domestic users first.

[Ian Gardiner]

Very interested to see the FT interview and I understand you may have plans for a London launch?

Are you planning to localise the product?

[Yaser Anwar]

Sir-

In the future, will affluent/sophisticated individual investors be allowed access to M110?

Good interview.