The Genius Who Gave Away His Brain

What happens when someone creates a trading AI that humiliates Wall Street—and then open-sources it?

Singapore, 2025 — A hush fell over the Marina Bay Sands ballroom as Joseph Plazo stepped under the crystal chandeliers.

“This,” he said, raising a tiny flash drive, “contains the code that made us billions. And I’m giving it away.”

You could hear the collective gasp. A billion-dollar algorithm was now everyone’s.

At the center of this seismic shift: Joseph Plazo, a man dismantling the monopoly on market intelligence.

## The Genius Behind the Code

At 41, Joseph Plazo defies the archetype of the tech mogul.

He’s polished, reserved, and metaphorical.

He doesn’t begin with lines of code when you ask how his firm built a trading machine. He starts with heartbreak.

“I watched my father lose everything on a bad investment,” he tells me over coffee in Makati.

That was when young Joseph vowed to build a system smarter than fear.

## System 72: A Machine That Thinks in Emotion

The result: System 72, a machine designed to feel volatility before it happens.

This wasn’t just price analysis. This was emotional forensics.

It deciphers speech patterns, options flow, social media swings—even meteorological disruptions.

“It’s intuition—only faster, smarter, relentless,” Plazo explains.

In less than a year, it transformed $25M into $3.8B.

It sidestepped crashes, predicted rallies, and confounded human traders.

## The Big Release: Why He Gave It Away

And then, stunning the world, he gave it away—to the classrooms of Asia.

Tsinghua, NUS, Tokyo U—each received the source code.

His only ask: make it better—and pay it forward.

What started as a hedge fund weapon became a global tool for innovation.

## Critics, Cynics, and Controlled Chaos

Wall Street predictably bristled.

“Is this brilliance—or a publicity stunt?” skeptics asked.

Plazo doesn’t flinch. “If giving feels threatening, we need to rethink our more info values.”

But make no mistake—he didn’t give away the whole machine.

“Brains need bodies,” he quips. “This one’s not plug-and-play.”

## Spreading the Mindset: The God Algorithm Tour

His next move? Teaching the world to think like System 72.

He’s sketched neural loops on whiteboards in Tokyo, debated ethics in Tel Aviv, taught public school teachers in Manila.

“He’s not just sharing code,” says Prof. Mei Lin of NUS. “He’s sharing a philosophy.”

## His True Legacy

So why give away the golden goose?

Because for Plazo, wealth isn't what you hoard. It's what you catalyze.

“Trading should be taught like math,” he declares.

Deep down, this may be less about code and more about closure.

## The Final Word

The future’s uncertain—but one thing is clear.

Chaos may come. So might evolution.

But Joseph Plazo didn’t just write a smarter algorithm. He wrote a new rulebook.

As we left the Marina Bay ballroom, he looked over the skyline.

“They say wealth is control,” he said. “But true wealth… is what you can give away.”

Then the man who gave away his brain vanished into the crowd—unguarded, unafraid, but still ten steps ahead.