Some thoughts as we prepare to launch Vest crypto — In the past couple of years, crypto companies have IPO’d, bought basketball arenas, and acquired traditional financial services companies, capturing a growing share of the public imagination. If you’ve invested in crypto, you’ve either won big, lost big, or perhaps both. Crypto challenges conventional thinking about finance and government, with…

Dear Vest Customer, I am thrilled to announce that we are launching Vest’s private beta via waitlist. This phase of the launch will last until early January when we fully open the platform to the public. For much of my time as an investor, I tended to either stay on…

Estimado cliente de Vest, Estoy encantado de anunciar que estamos lanzando la versión beta privada de Vest a través de una Lista de Espera. Esta fase del lanzamiento durará hasta principios de enero, cuando abramos completamente la plataforma al público. Durante gran parte de mi tiempo como inversionista, me mantenía…

At Vest, when we use the term “invest,” we are referring to the practice of buying something today that has a chance of… Becoming more valuable in the future, And/or providing you with the potential for passive income. Instead of consuming your money, you are putting it to work so…

Latin Americans work hard for their savings, but their savings haven’t been working hard for them. In Mexico, 80% of working adults regularly set aside a portion of their income, yet only 15% report using any kind of formal savings instrument. At the same time, pension reform in Mexico has…

Why we built the platform, what we learned trying to turn it into a business, and where we’re going next — Quick update: We’ve taken stockbets down and are giving 100% of our time an energy to Vest. However, Miguel and I decided to open-source the codebase. While there are a bunch of things that we did differently — and better — for Vest, this is a nice example of a…

Field notes from an engineering team lead — Intro to the field notes A couple weeks ago I took a step back from fintech for rest, reflection, and to invest in personal projects. I’m taking advantage of the time to put down some thoughts about engineering team leadership and product development. I had a great run as CTO of Credijusto.com and VP of…

Now and again I want a crisp digital copy of something that I, a team member, friend, etc., wrote on a whiteboard or piece of paper. I’d played around with a couple free online converters, but they all have clumsy thresholds and significantly downsample the images. This repo lets you…

Getting it right this time — tl;dr Use Fedora 29 (soft recommendation — worked for me when CentOS 7 broke) Use Docker (strong recommendation — this is the way to go) Script to configure NVIDIA drivers on Fedora here Script to install NVIDIA docker, followed by a GPU-integrated pytorch container here A bit of context… Last year I wrote about my…