Empire Builders · EB-013
He Wrote The Algorithm In His Apartment In 2012. He Has Never Changed It. He Added One Variable In 2019. He Will Not Say What It Is.
Danny Farrell's algorithm, created in his Austin apartment, has achieved a remarkable sixty-one percent annual return since 2013, yet he has never changed it. In 2019, he added a mysterious variable and has consistently declined to disclose what it is, despite repeated probing from interviewer Ray Okafor.
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