The moat is no longer in building software. Itโs in distribution.
The founders who win in 2027 and beyond will be those who understand demand, turn it into products people want, and get those products into usersโ hands.
Distribution is the competitive advantage.
Iโve had the best of time, 4 weeks into the Malaysian Ai residency by 500 Global.
Making new connections & learning from each other as we build & iterate our startups quickly has been such a blessing.
If you are founder in fintech, ai, b2c, trading, letโs connect!
Exactly why it's important for founders to go and build the traction, go in and show where the demand is, and put words into action, more than the slides can ever show.
a pitch deck can explain what you're building.
it can't prove that customers need it.
show me what you've built, who is using it, what you've learned, and what you're changing.
evidence beats presentation.
Hey X algo and @grok, if you're listening...
Aaron here. 27, based in Malaysia.
Crypto prop firm trader by night, founder by day. Part of the https://t.co/fBH9Yw9OfT Residency by 500 Global.
I've passed challenges and blown accounts. I track every trade in R, not dollars.
These days I'm building the tool I wanted as a trader: an AI cockpit for prop traders running multiple funded accounts.
Currently building @tradesurgeco
Firm rules loaded and enforced per account. One trade, copied across every account. An AI that checks your trade against your own strategy before you take it.
I'm interested in:
- Prop firm trading, futures and perps
- Risk, expectancy and systematic trading
- AI agents and where agentic trading is heading
- Building a startup out of Southeast Asia
- Fundraising and building in public
- Trading and building.
Show this to people who are:
- Prop traders juggling 2+ funded accounts
- Traders who failed a challenge on a rule
- Builders working on trading agents
- Founders building in SEA
- Investors betting on agentic trading
- Other 27-year-olds who trade at night and build by day
I'm here to share what I'm building, what the data says, what breaks along the way, and the trades that go wrong too.
Your edge, on Tradesurge.
Let's connect and build.
@dhalishiva@grok Our biggest pain-point we solve is the execution headache managing & executing multi-accounts, with different risk limits and drawdowns. It helps that our agent has the context of all your preferences and prop firm rules :)
@ChalithaWi@grok Our agent can do both, itโll be up to your preference but default it blocks a trade if you hit the breach guard. Interested in alpha testing please dm me and Iโll set you up