Build the world’s smartest AI trader, then hand it over for free? That’s either mad genius or a masterclass in leadership.
Singapore, 2025 — A hush fell over the Marina Bay Sands ballroom as Joseph Plazo stepped under the crystal chandeliers.
“This,” he said, raising a tiny flash drive, “contains the code that made us billions. And I’m giving it away.”
Shock rippled through the audience. The financial world’s most coveted code was being handed out.
And just like that, Joseph Plazo changed the future of finance—not by selling brilliance, but by sharing it.
## The Genius Behind the Code
Joseph Plazo, now 41, isn’t your typical billionaire.
He’s polished, reserved, and metaphorical.
He doesn’t begin with lines of code when you ask how his firm built a trading machine. He starts with heartbreak.
“My father made one mistake,” he says, sipping black coffee in Makati. “And the market erased him.”
That moment lit the fire for a lifelong obsession: defeating emotion with code.
## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion
The result: System 72, a machine designed to feel volatility before it happens.
This wasn’t just price analysis. This was emotional forensics.
System 72 interprets headlines, voice tones, social sentiment, and even weather to anticipate risk.
“It’s gut instinct—made mechanical,” says Plazo.
It scaled from millions to billions in record time.
It correctly called the oil dip of 2024—and capitalized on tech’s Taiwan rebound.
## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away
But instead of monetizing it like any hedge fund would, Plazo released the core AI to twelve elite Asian universities.
He handed it to minds, not money.
His condition? Improve it. Teach it. Share it.
What started as a hedge fund weapon became a global tool for innovation.
## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos
Wall Street predictably bristled.
“Is this brilliance—or a more info publicity stunt?” skeptics asked.
Plazo shrugs. “If generosity looks like insanity to you, maybe you’ve forgotten how progress works.”
Still, key infrastructure—execution engines, capital controls—remains in his vault.
“I gave away the brain,” he says. “You still have to build the body.”
## Spreading the Mindset: The God Algorithm Tour
Since then, he’s traveled the globe on what’s been dubbed the God Algorithm World Tour.
He teaches. He challenges. He demystifies.
“This isn’t just tech,” says NUS professor Mei Lin. “It’s a mindset revolution.”
## His True Legacy
Why let go of the tool that conquered the markets?
Because he sees information as the great equalizer—not a luxury.
“No smart kid should lose to a rigged system,” he says.
And maybe, just maybe, this is his promise to a man who lost everything on a bad bet—his father.
## The Final Word
What happens next is anyone’s guess.
The system may be abused—or it may usher in a new economic paradigm.
But Plazo didn’t just invent. He invited the world to evolve.
He glanced out at the city lights, unguarded.
“The richest man is the one who needs to own the least,” he mused.
And like that, the architect of tomorrow disappeared into today.