In the early days, we worked as a team, did it all--including office vacuuming--and got creative with equipment to get the platform off the ground. Years later a lot has changed, but we've never lost our tremendous sense of pride and ownership in what we do. We've also kept our creative spirit, as we build out new features for subscribers.
Moments like this are a celebration of the traders we work with and the bespoke relationships we've built, so that we understand their business and deliver for them. It’s been fun and gratifying to build out two types of order books for customers and to customize our offerings to even better meet their needs. Year five is going to be full of innovations that should draw even more order flow.
Building a completely new trading system from scratch was an unforgettable experience. We were constructing a high-performance platform that wasn’t weighed down by old assumptions or past mistakes. We could focus purely on what traders needed for best execution. Many technical challenges were solved by just a handful of engineers. It was amazing to watch the day it kicked off and started flying in the real world.
The team we’ve built has steadily grown but it still has the same DNA we started with: a shared passion and talent for innovating to solve our clients’ problems. We work hard to very specifically understand and meet their needs. Because we are all focused on the same thing, there’s a very unified, egalitarian vibe around the way the team works together. It’s all about our clients–without their support and continued confidence in our abilities, we would not be anywhere near where we are today.
There was electricity in the air of the 8 x 16 room we started in. We knew we were building something special that was going to change the landscape for traders. We were a very tight-knit, cohesive team that focused every day on meeting our deliverables, and what it would take to get the job done well for our subscribers and early adopters.
I joined IntelligentCross right out of college. This was just after launch and the order flow was growing quickly, but the numbers were tiny compared to where we are now: I remember our excitement the day a client traded a million shares for the first time! Several years in, I seem to enjoy my job so much more than most of my peers, because of the opportunities, mentorship, and shared focus on constantly improving the platform.
Our culture on the operations team combines a hyper-intense focus on daily performance with a laid-back, sometimes slightly goofy sense of humor that keeps us all humming along. This is as true today as it was back when we first launched the ASPEN lit order book– every time we got a fill we’d play a guitar riff! Our huge volume means we don’t do that any more, but we approach every single order that comes in like we did those first ones–giving it our laser focus to ensure we’re delivering on price optimization and minimal market impact.
In the early days, we worked as a team, did it all--including office vacuuming--and got creative with equipment to get the platform off the ground. Years later a lot has changed, but we've never lost our tremendous sense of pride and ownership in what we do. We've also kept our creative spirit, as we build out new features for subscribers.
Moments like this are a celebration of the traders we work with and the close relationships we have, so that we understand their business and deliver for them. It’s been fun and gratifying to build out two types of order books for customers, and to customize our offerings to even better meet their needs. Year five is going to be full of innovations that should draw even more order flow.
Building a completely new trading system from scratch was an unforgettable experience. We were constructing a high-performance platform that wasn’t weighed down by old assumptions or past mistakes. We could focus purely on what traders needed for best execution. Many technical challenges were solved by just a handful of engineers. It was amazing to watch the day it kicked off and started flying in the real world.
The team we’ve built has steadily grown but it still has the same DNA we started with: a shared passion and talent for innovating to solve our clients’ problems. We work hard to very specifically understand and meet their needs. Because we are all focused on the same thing, there’s a very unified, egalitarian vibe around the way the team works together. It’s all about our clients–without their support and continued confidence in our abilities, we would not be anywhere near where we are today.
There was electricity in the air of the 8 x 16 room we started in. We knew we were building something special that was going to change the landscape for traders. We were a very tight-knit, cohesive team that focused every day on meeting our deliverables, and what it would take to get the job done well for our subscribers and early adopters.
I joined IntelligentCross right out of college. This was just after launch and the order flow was growing quickly, but the numbers were tiny compared to where we are now: I remember our excitement the day a client traded a million shares for the first time! Several years in, I seem to enjoy my job so much more than most of my peers, because of the opportunities, mentorship, and shared focus on constantly improving the platform.
Our culture on the operations team combines a hyper-intense focus on daily performance with a laid-back, sometimes slightly goofy sense of humor that keeps us all humming along. This is as true today as it was back when we first launched the ASPEN lit order book– every time we got a fill we’d play a guitar riff! Our huge volume means we don’t do that any more, but we approach every single order that comes in like we did those first ones–giving it our laser focus to ensure we’re delivering on price optimization and minimal market impact.