Ahead of the new Jim Simons book that just arrived, I started reading Flash Boys as a sort of appetizer.
Seen through a financial market lens, this is a historical commentary five years later.
From the perspective of tech entrepreneurship, product development, market research and fit, it feels entirely current.
A notion came to mind, reading through initial chapters, and remembering the ad tech map from roughly the same time…
This also is a category based on programmable, high-volume, high-frequency trade on private exchanges.
And here is a sample from those early pages of the book, which got me wondering…
Presumably, the answers to persistent questions and a better understanding of the flows led to needed improvements and efficiencies, though I’m anticipating and jumping ahead.
Perhaps a similar opportunity presents itself in all the analogous segments.
