About a decade ago, I worked for a now-defunct company called FutureTrade. We made an electronic trading platform aimed at professional traders (mainly in hedge funds). The company went through the usual sad failing company maneuvers, including a string of layoffs in which I lost my job there. Eventually, months after I was gone, the company was sold to Interactive Brokers. Their founder and CEO is Thomas Peterffy, who grew up in Hungary when it was a satellite of the Soviet Union. He knows first-hand what socialism does to a country and its people, and he emigrated to America to escape that. Listen to what he has to say:
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