What happens when someone creates a trading AI that humiliates Wall Street—and then open-sources it?
Under a canopy of chandeliers in Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands, Joseph Plazo stepped onto the stage, flash drive in hand.
Holding up a house-key-sized flash drive, he declared, “This made billions. It’s yours now.”
Shock rippled through the audience. The financial world’s most coveted code was being handed out.
Meet Joseph Plazo, the man rewriting the rules of capital by giving away the one thing Wall Street would kill to keep.
## The Genius Behind the Code
Joseph Plazo, now 41, isn’t your typical billionaire.
He’s polished, reserved, and metaphorical.
The origin of his invention wasn’t brilliance—it was pain.
“I watched my father lose everything on a bad investment,” he tells me over coffee in Makati.
From that moment, he decided to engineer foresight—real, mathematical foresight.
## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion
He called it System 72—a machine that anticipates fear before it moves the needle.
It didn’t just read trends. It read behavior.
System 72 interprets headlines, voice tones, social sentiment, and even weather to anticipate risk.
“It’s gut instinct—made mechanical,” says Plazo.
In less than a year, it transformed $25M into $3.8B.
It dodged the 2024 oil crash. It rode the tech micro-rally after Taiwan’s semiconductor scare.
## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away
And then, stunning the world, he gave it away—to the classrooms of Asia.
He handed it to minds, not money.
His condition? Improve it. Teach it. Share it.
Suddenly, it wasn’t just about finance—it was about disaster modeling, logistics, and public service.
## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos
Wall Street predictably bristled.
“Is this brilliance—or a publicity stunt?” skeptics asked.
“When sharing feels radical,” he says, “it means capitalism’s compass is broken.”
But Plazo isn’t careless. He shared the brain, not the fortress.
“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.
From Tokyo to Tel Aviv to Manila, he’s mentoring future builders.
“He’s not just sharing code,” says Prof. Mei Lin of NUS. “He’s sharing a philosophy.”
## His True Legacy
What kind of man hands over a fortune’s worth of foresight?
Because he sees information as the great equalizer—not a luxury.
“Trading should be taught like math,” he declares.
And maybe, just maybe, this is his promise to a man who lost everything on a bad bet—his father.
## The Final Word
No one knows how this ends.
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 more info 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.