Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge
Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer at Moshi, walks through how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for energy and macro traders. We get into screen real estate wars on trading desks, why people lie about their workflows, building Toyotas instead of Ferraris, and what it actually takes to leave a dream job to chase a harder one.
00:00 - Screen real estate and the death of the application
04:00 - Building Moshi after eight years of trading
08:00 - Tribal knowledge, generational gaps, and AI FOMO
12:30 - A statistical edge in a zero-sum industry
17:30 - Toyotas vs Ferraris and learning to fail fast
23:30 - Team culture at startup speed
27:00 - Solo founding and always selling
33:30 - From a careers book at Warwick to JP Morgan
37:00 - Leaving the dream job for a Fulbright to Rice
43:30 - Prioritization and listening without taking it personally
49:30 - The hard moments and finding conviction
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00:00 - Screen real estate and the death of the application
04:00 - Building Moshi after eight years of trading
08:00 - Tribal knowledge, generational gaps, and AI FOMO
12:30 - A statistical edge in a zero-sum industry
17:30 - Toyotas vs Ferraris and learning to fail fast
23:30 - Team culture at startup speed
27:00 - Solo founding and always selling
33:30 - From a careers book at Warwick to JP Morgan
37:00 - Leaving the dream job for a Fulbright to Rice
43:30 - Prioritization and listening without taking it personally
49:30 - The hard moments and finding conviction
