QT Software, the Troika, to insights on co-founding Elevence
In summer 1996, I met Mattias Jansson and Lukas Lüthy (left and Luki middle above, I am at the right), as well as Adrian Lucas (left below) and in what seemed to be less than 15m, they were inviting me to join them set up a software company to develop a non-proprietary derivative market making system. Another key partner in this story is Stig Hubertsson (not shown). Therefore, we found ourselves co-founding QT Software, which later was renamed Actant . I bring up this past in this blog to cheer excellent individuals and a great team, and give you insights into how QT and Actant led me to co-found Elevence and develop a unique smart contract language (then acquired by Digital Asset). First the cheering: Still now Actant software is known to be the fastest non-proprietary derivative trading software. And while I don't have the numbers, I could well believe that they compete well with proprietary derivative trading software on classical hardware (meaning CPUs and not FPGAs)...