Unlocking Market Insights: The Futurum Equities Journey with Shay Boloor

Hey, everyone. We're back here on Textron tv. You know, I've been, couldn't wait to get this guy on.

As soon as we announced what's going on at fu I kind of immediately reached out and said, Hey, we gotta talk. Um, let me introduce you to Shai Bola Shai, welcome to Text Drug tv. Welcome to Futurum Group.

Thanks for coming on here, man. Thanks for having me, Alan. I'm, uh, super excited to start this new chapter in my life.

Uh, honestly couldn't be a better partnership, um, than futurum, and, uh, I'm super happy to be here. Very cool. So we're gonna talk about Futurum Equities, which is this new business unit.

You are, you're heading up there. But before we do, I wanted to kind of give people a sense of your story. Obviously a big LA sports fan behind you there.

Um, but beyond that, give people, you know, your journey and how you wound up being involved here in future equities. Yeah, so, uh, it's an interesting one because I started my TII started my Twitter page just two years ago. Stock Savvy, shy.

And I mainly, my initial goal from that was to create a, um, environment where I can communicate my thoughts. Uh, my whole career has been corporate strategy. So I've worked in, uh, fortune 500 companies in healthcare, entertainment, uh, tech, and my whole job has always been digesting data, creating a narrative, and communicating it to the C-suite so they don't have to do the work.

So I was like, all right, well, I feel like I've been a fin wood follower. I go on Twitter for over five years ago to get my information on what to do with my investments. I saw that there was a niche missing there.

It was either too much data vomit, too technical, or it was just hard on the eyes. They didn't, there wasn't really a signal, any kind of messaging. And I was like, ah, I think I could fit, fit that little gap right there.

Let me try it out. And also, at the time, my girlfriend, at the time fiance now, she was sick of me talking about stocks, like completely. I was like, uh, I kept telling her like, oh, uh, the year it was 2022, every month.

I was like, it's gonna bottom now. The market, the bubbles, it's gonna burst. It's, it's burst, it's gonna bottom.

So I used, um, Twitter as essentially as stocks have shy. I was like a great place to journal, share my charts that I create on my own, my Excel modeling. And then it just blossomed to something so much more.

And I think a lot of times now where my account is, uh, a hundred, I'm looking at around 184,000 followers. I get over 50 million, uh, impressions a month. I just did not think it would blossom into this.

And I just turned 32 this past weekend. So I actually did have somewhat of a self every year, um, every birthday. I think it's very common for a lot of people that they reflect.

Uh, it's a great time to close a chapter, begin a new one. And at this one, this birthday was one I was really proud of to close that chapter because it got me reflecting, uh, not just on who, where I am, but how I got here. I mean, this was supposed to be a side project for me.

Uh, just me, the love of research and a belief that if I stayed focused long enough that maybe just, maybe it could, something could come of it. And now I'm partnering up with an incredible, uh, company like rum. Um, the reach, the platform that they offer and the access that they have gave me the freedom, uh, to not be shackled to the W2 Life corporate ladder.

Just the ability to turn my, uh, ideas into conversations and turn my momentum that I had on X and what I built for myself into a real opportunity. And I'm just super excited to be working alongside a great incredible team with, uh, purpose, clarity, and honestly zero ceiling. That's something I just have not experienced ever in my career.

And I'm excited to see where I go next now I my 33rd birthday. Wow. Well first of all, man, happy birthday.

Thank for, Good for you. That's a great thing. Then I think back at 32, I was, I was doing crazy things still, um, but it was a different time.

Anyway, I wanna talk a little bit about Futur equities. We announced it when it was announced just last week. Um, exciting.

It, it's kind of a new branch of, of the Futura model, if you will. But for people out here maybe who didn't see the announcement or not familiar with Futur equities, how would you describe it? Shai?

Yeah, so, uh, it's a great question. I think the reason it's hard to describe because it doesn't exist out there. Anything that's comparable.

Uh, a lot of people think about the modern investor or just retail investor. You could call it dumb money if you want, but really they have been scoring a lot better than the smart money past couple years. Either way, it's, there's been a renaissance on where the volume of retail of investors are coming from.

It's coming from retail. Unfortunately, though the model hasn't been beneficial for retail. It's been a lot of crowdsourcing where, for me specifically, like I was able to get into Palantir under 10 bucks, CrowdStrike under a hundred Rock Lab, hundred five ion Q hundred 10, like et cetera.

Mainly because I'm able to digest data and create a narrative. See what's, what's noise and what's the signal due to my corporate experience. A lot of digital investors don't have that luxury.

They don't have that time to gain those skillset. Like part of, like, my journey when I started five years ago was, uh, Malcolm Gladwell the outlier book. I was like, if I put 10,000 hours in, like I'll feel comfortable being in a room for people who have been doing this for decades.

So I put the time in. Uh, but even then, like I stick my finger out and just see where the wind's blowing because I'm just guessing at this point. But for decades, institutional investors, like they've been winning.

And it wasn't because they're brighter than me. They weren't, it wasn't because they're smarter than me, it was because they were closer to the data, to the decision makers, to the signals before they hit the tape or the earnings reports. And that's when retail saw it.

So I was like, Daniel and I have been friends for, uh, a while and we've internet friends, uh, and we were just like, we noticed that there was a gap missing on what the modern investor needed. Robinhood disrupted the whole brokerage business by creating 0% commission. And now every legacy broker followed suits.

I think there's a disruption to be had on research, especially access to research. There's a high institutional wall right now attached to actual data and research that will move the needle on. If it's a good investment, it's not a good investment.

And where the puck's heading, and I think virtual at rum equities are trying to close that gap with air. And by air I mean access insights, research. I think every investor, modern retail investor needs air in order to catch up for the institutional whales out there.

So that's the pil that's the three pillars of the install institutional edge that us at Futurum equities are trying to build for the modern investor. And again, like we're not doing it alone. We have some great partnerships like in Stock Twits.

Uh, we have a daily rip morning show that it's a pla and Stock Twist is a platform that has 3 million active users daily to talk market. So as part of that partnership, we have that daily RIP Live show. And I do think that it's one of the most watched live financial shows 'cause we get up to, uh, 10 to 12,000 daily viewers for that one hour every morning.

So I think there was, um, essentially a longwinded answer on, there was a gap out there on access and providing a signal of where the puck's heading. And right now it's probably the first time in the stock market history. We're experiencing multiple super cycles at the same time, ai, quantum space, electrification like this never been happening before, where all of these things are happening at once.

And because of that, things are moving really quickly. And if you're a retail investor, like you have a difficult time of what's, what's noise and what's an actual signal. And we're trying to provide the guardrails for that to give the, uh, futurum daily signal on what people should focus on and what they should maybe, uh, that's noise.

'cause unfortunately, 90% of the, uh, information out there is just noise. But it could really dictate your future, uh, livelihood based on what kind of investments do you make today. Yeah.

You know, I I I really think that that's one of the biggest problems in civilization today is most people just can't separate signal from noise. Whether it's financial information, political information, just daily news or anything else. You know, we went from having, you know, three channels of TV to infinite numbers of channels mm-hmm.

Of information. And a lot of people, you know, they're all the same and they can't differentiate between them. So it is, that is a problem today.

Separating signal from noise. You mentioned air. I want to, I wanna reemphasize that access.

What, what's Air stand for a IR Yeah. Access Insights Research. Yeah.

Access Insights and Research. Right? Yeah.

And that's what Future and Equities is bringing. Now you mentioned the Daily Signal. I signed up for day one, but tell our audience what, what is the future and Daily Signal?

Yeah. So, uh, if you guys aren't aware on the institutional sides, there's usually, uh, some kind of institutional grade research note that gets sent out every morning. You probably have seen it with the Dan Ives out there.

The Tom Lees like essentially, uh, there's so much news that happens every day that it's good to give a pulse track of like, this is the big rock for today. For example, today, uh, this morning's Futureum Daily Signal is about, is open AI gonna be disrupting Palantir? 'cause OpenAI just landed at $200 million do Defense Department of Defense contract.

And that's the first major like AI software contract since Palantir. So a lot of fund was getting generated overnight. I'm like, is does Palantir ever moats?

Is that monopoly kind of cracking a bit with this open ai? And I was like, we have to send them a signal ASAP before this materializes into something that it isn't. And our ethos on this morning's note was, it's not, it's, to be honest, it's amplifying it.

Because what Palantir does is it makes all these LMS operational. So when Open AI lands these major deals, it's just providing the intelligence layer for the DOD but doesn't really provide the control layer. That control layer is what Palantir does.

And nobody can do what Palantir does in that segment of what AI's gonna be. So that's just noise and that we went into deep depth on what that is. But every single morning we're creating a 500, 600 word, uh, thought of the day, uh, daily, uh, some signal of like what caused a ruckus the day that day, uh, of, or day before that we're trying to help guardrail you through that fog of, uh, FUD essentially.

And that's what, uh, we were aiming to do. And I'm glad you signed up. Hopefully like, and maybe give some feedback since we're only, uh, two weeks into it.

So open to whatever, uh, whatever narrative you want to tell us about Helping. I'm just sucking it all in right now. But here's the great thing for people watching out there, right?

It doesn't cost anything. This isn't up behind some broker wall, right? And anyone can sign up for this and get it in their email box every morning.

Well that, that was like the major, major component. When Daniel and I are orchestrating what future home equities is gonna be, it was, we have to make this free because there is a real subscription exhaustion among retailers. Like a lot of people have just like, do I pay this, that, this, like, it started with streaming wars where like now I, I swear I pay more than what the cable cable bill was probably going to be back in the day.

Now I have eight different, uh, streams that I pay for. And the same thing for newsletters, subscription. Like people like in order to get that signal, like you have to pay up for it.

And even then it's really not much of a signal. This is, that's why it's becoming disruptive, where like we could probably monetize this pretty quickly right off the gates. We don't want to, that's not the purpose.

We're truly trying to provide the signal for retail investors to play catch up and have a chance to have an apples to apples fight into this beautiful game of capitalism that we all love because we're participating in it to better ourselves and we don't wanna wanna monetize that. We just don't. We're just really, truly trying to help out, um, a lot of retail investors.

And that's where we're following a similar ethos of what Robinhood did back in the day on disrupting their brokerage business. It's very one A, one B. Absolutely.

Hey, just real quick before I forget, for people who do wanna sign up for it, where do they go? com. We also have our, uh, Twitter page, rum equity, uh, equities.

It is, um, a, uh, Twitter account that I, we post in every single day about like specific one-liners on stocks that we love. We also just last week created a Futurum AI 15 list on non max seven names that we believe are early disruptors and what they do, because guess what? AI is not just big tech semiconductors.

There's, or Nvidia, there's a lot of companies under the sta uh, lowering the stack that will be massive disruptors, uh, the Palantir of the world. So we set out that list last week, uh, got great feedback. It's uh, we've gone on tv, talked about it a couple times and it's gained some traction And yeah, we, we create these kind of lists on a monthly basis on top of the Daily signals every morning.

So, uh, yeah, check Twitter account, sign up, uh, for that free app. It's not gonna hurt you. And my the worst thing is just another email in your inbox, but I really do hope that people take uh, one to two minutes every day just to read up on it 'cause it keeps you on top on your toes.

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com. Alright. Just wanna make sure we get that right.

Shai, I don't wanna take up too much of your time, but man, I'm excited. I, everyone at Futur is excited about to see where this goes because there's another element, we don't have time to maybe jump into it today, but that is marrying retail investor needs to the needs of the typical futurum customer, which are large tech companies where the public venture backed what have you. But what you find is information is the global currency, right?

And the same information that that retail investor needs is the same information that the chief strategy officer at public tech company needs, right? They want to know mm-hmm. What's going on and what the, what's the big story and how do they separate the noise from from signal.

So though it made on its surface seem like, well that's really a B2C play and there's a B2B play. The fact of the matter is what underlies them both is information, right? Yeah.

The advisory services. And, and so that's where I think rubber meets the road here. And it's gonna be really, really cool to watch to see how this takes off.

One feeds the other. Yeah, totally. I'm very excited and, uh, we're just getting started.

I, I'm sure that uh, once when we succeed, others will fall suit and that institutional wall will get taken down. Like bring back, bring down that wall. Uh, yeah, it's gonna be a dive.

I remember that. Alright man. Hey Shai, welcome to the family.

Keep up the great work. Looking forward to hearing more and seeing more of what you guys got going on at You're True of Equities. Thank you.

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