23/07/2026Essay / Crypto
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Why I'm building $JOB


I'm an equities trader who has done over $700 million in volume in the house of finance, Hyperliquid. I'm stepping away from equities now, part time for now and maybe for good, to build something I've always wanted to. I've traded plenty of memes over the years, but I've never made one.

Before anyone calls bullshit, and fair enough, crypto is full of red flags and people you can't trust, everything I'm saying is public. Pull up my deployer wallet in any Hyperliquid tracker and check it on-chain. The links are below.

I'm not dropping numbers to flex. I'm saying it because if anyone should get to run an idea like this, let it be the guy who has traded nine figures of volume in the house of finance.

I spend my days on Bloomberg terminal and in the markets, trying to read where things are heading. One thing has become impossible to ignore. The AI race is taking jobs faster than anyone wants to admit, on a curve that looks a lot like our falling birth rates. Before long there won't be enough to go around.

So I did my due diligence and found protocols that let you pair a token to a real stock. I paired this one with Apple, because Steve $Jobs, the founder of Apple, was one of the founding fathers of the modern job itself.

This is bigger than a meme to me. In a future with fewer and fewer jobs, you can own the idea of one and have it pay you more than any job ever could.

Before you take my word for any of it, here is the proof. This is my actual all-time PnL on Hyperliquid, pulled live, with the moments that mattered marked right on it. Hover any of the dots.

All volume
$738.2M
All pnl
-$399,590
-$648K-$451K-$254K-$57K$140KSepDecFebMayJul

And here is the story behind them.

First green month. Two weeks in and I had my first green month trading equities. It felt easy, the size kept working, and I convinced myself I had it figured out. I did not.

Lost almost everything. It turned fast. The gains were gone and then some, and by late 2025 I had lost almost everything to my name. That was the first time I understood the difference between a good run and an edge.

Borrowed to double down. In February I did the thing you are never supposed to do. I borrowed from the bank and from a couple of friends to size back in, completely sure the bottom was in. The bottom was not in, and the next few months were the worst stretch of my life.

Called the bottom. By late June the whole market was capitulating. I took my bets on the bottom being in around 58k on BTC, sized it properly this time, and for once it actually was.

Launched $JOB. I've clawed back around $130k of the losses since. Instead of grinding perps forever, I'm stepping away to build this.

That is the whole picture, no cropped screenshots and no cherry-picked wins. If you can get behind a meme run by anyone, get behind the one run by the guy who showed you the losses too.

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