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Asian final boss origin story dropping. World #1 Brawl Stars. Violin prodigy since age 7. Nationally awarded Chinese linguistics. Fluent Korean & Japanese. Valedictorian. Columbia University. SIG quant at 19. My name is Daniel Jeong, and this is my story. I am a Korean-American born to immigrant parents in a small city in Ohio, moved to North Carolina and eventually to an Appalachian town in Tennessee with a population of 2k. Asian population 0.4%. 9 people. That’s my family and 3 of our friends. Growing up in this environment often felt limiting, forced to be the eternal underdog, the odds always stacked against me. Destined for mediocrity but driven by sheer willpower, I always dreamt of the world beyond the fence. I wanted more, to learn everything and achieve something truly spectacular. I am always all-in. At first, it was music. I debuted as a solo violinist when I was 11 years old. Eventually, I performed on the same stages that giants like Yo-yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman once played on. I’m Korean, but I’ve always loved learning other languages. After studying Chinese for 2 years, I begged my parents to send me to China for 4 weeks to be fully immersed. I did the same with Japanese and lived in Osaka for 6 weeks. I’m now fluent and when I was 16, I became the US #1 Non-heritage Chinese speaker by winning the US National Chinese Proficiency Competition. I went on to represent the USA in the International Chinese Proficiency Competition where the top 100 Chinese speakers in the World, 1 or 2 per country, compete on the global stage. I was Valedictorian of the McCallie School, the best high school in the South (and in the nation I would argue) and went to Columbia University, where I graduated with majors in Math, Stats, and Computer Science. I’m hyper-competitive and love games and sports. I was captain of my high school’s first squash team and led the program to National’s in our first year, which became D1 only a few years after inception. I also loved Brawl Stars to the point where I became World #1. I used to play video games, but I felt stuck after grinding to the top. Then, I realized that the stock market is the largest video game ever created. I’ve been obsessed with the markets ever since. When I got to college, I wanted to see who retail investors were trading against. I didn’t know what it looked like, but I could sense that the tools and strategies that were being distributed to retail investors weren’t the ones used by institutions. After years of studying quantitative finance, options theory, probability theory, and playing too much poker, I broke into quant trading at 19 years old at Susquehanna International Group, one of the largest market makers in the world. The internal tools that they have access to are unimaginable. The tech that retail traders have access to is literally decade-old tech. The retail trading experience has gotten much better, and commission-free trading was a game changer for retail traders, but almost ALL pain points still remain. If you have an idea about the world, Donald Trump running for a third term for example, there are so many pain points. Which stocks are affected? How much? How does news impact your portfolio? That’s why I’m building Omen. I am taking everything that I learned and bringing it directly to you. We are building the first agentic trading platform, a quant firm for the people. Omen empowers you to bet on any of your ideas by automating all the research, analysis, and portfolio management using AI agents. Retail traders have never seen this level of ease and power. I have always started as the underdog, but I always come out on top. Retail traders have been the underdog for far too long. It’s time to bet on the underdog. It’s time to bet on me. I am leading the retail trading revolution. From the most unlikely beginnings to the top of the world. Join me.

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World #1 Brawl Stars. Violin prodigy since age 7. Nationally awarded Chinese linguistics. Fluent Korean & Japanese. Valedictorian. Columbia University. SIG quant at 19.

My name is Daniel Jeong, and this is my story.

I am a Korean-American born to immigrant parents in a small city in Ohio, moved to North Carolina and eventually to an Appalachian town in Tennessee with a population of 2k. Asian population 0.4%. 9 people. That’s my family and 3 of our friends.

Growing up in this environment often felt limiting, forced to be the eternal underdog, the odds always stacked against me. Destined for mediocrity but driven by sheer willpower, I always dreamt of the world beyond the fence. I wanted more, to learn everything and achieve something truly spectacular.

I am always all-in.

At first, it was music. I debuted as a solo violinist when I was 11 years old. Eventually, I performed on the same stages that giants like Yo-yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman once played on.

I’m Korean, but I’ve always loved learning other languages. After studying Chinese for 2 years, I begged my parents to send me to China for 4 weeks to be fully immersed. I did the same with Japanese and lived in Osaka for 6 weeks. I’m now fluent and when I was 16, I became the US #1 Non-heritage Chinese speaker by winning the US National Chinese Proficiency Competition. I went on to represent the USA in the International Chinese Proficiency Competition where the top 100 Chinese speakers in the World, 1 or 2 per country, compete on the global stage.

I was Valedictorian of the McCallie School, the best high school in the South (and in the nation I would argue) and went to Columbia University, where I graduated with majors in Math, Stats, and Computer Science.

I’m hyper-competitive and love games and sports. I was captain of my high school’s first squash team and led the program to National’s in our first year, which became D1 only a few years after inception. I also loved Brawl Stars to the point where I became World #1.

I used to play video games, but I felt stuck after grinding to the top. Then, I realized that the stock market is the largest video game ever created. I’ve been obsessed with the markets ever since. When I got to college, I wanted to see who retail investors were trading against. I didn’t know what it looked like, but I could sense that the tools and strategies that were being distributed to retail investors weren’t the ones used by institutions.

After years of studying quantitative finance, options theory, probability theory, and playing too much poker, I broke into quant trading at 19 years old at Susquehanna International Group, one of the largest market makers in the world. The internal tools that they have access to are unimaginable.

The tech that retail traders have access to is literally decade-old tech. The retail trading experience has gotten much better, and commission-free trading was a game changer for retail traders, but almost ALL pain points still remain. If you have an idea about the world, Donald Trump running for a third term for example, there are so many pain points. Which stocks are affected? How much? How does news impact your portfolio? That’s why I’m building Omen. I am taking everything that I learned and bringing it directly to you.

We are building the first agentic trading platform, a quant firm for the people. Omen empowers you to bet on any of your ideas by automating all the research, analysis, and portfolio management using AI agents. Retail traders have never seen this level of ease and power.

I have always started as the underdog, but I always come out on top. Retail traders have been the underdog for far too long. It’s time to bet on the underdog. It’s time to bet on me. I am leading the retail trading revolution. From the most unlikely beginnings to the top of the world.

Join me.

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