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Global markets were built for everyone. Access wasn't. Millions of traders outside the US watch Tesla move. Watch Nvidia earnings. Watch SpaceX rumors explode timelines. But when it's time to act? The door closes. Mochatrade is rebuilding that layer. A perpetual futures platform for US equities. Built for global traders first. Trade TSLA, NVDA, AAPL, and 50 US stocks Up to 50x leverage 24/7 markets No US brokerage account required Deposit in local currency. Trade in minutes. Stay self-custodial the entire time. Because the future of trading won't look like legacy brokerage apps. It'll be: Borderless Always-on Crypto-native infrastructure underneath Simple UX on top Global traders still can't easily access leveraged US equities. India alone drives 60% of the world's derivatives volume. That contradiction became the company — starting with India, then the rest of the world. "We have experienced the pain point ourselves" Parth and Chetan grew up in India watching this door stay closed. So they built the platform they wished existed. Not another broker. An access layer for the next generation of retail traders. 🎙️ @_ParthVader_ & @theblackmanda, Co-Founders, mochatrade.com on @Fondocom @thestartpod Huge thanks to @compai for making this episode possible!

In many cases, the best AI companies aren't replacing software. They're giving it a login. Every software company for years has made the same pitch to manufacturers: clean APIs, migrate your stack, rip out your ERP It rarely works well. The ERP is the company brain. Years of data. You can't rip it out any more than you can rip out someone's memory @nikolas_keller & Co-Founder @lukaspostulka figured out the obvious thing that everyone missed Stop trying to replace the software. Give an AI employee a login instead. @walterindustry signs into SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Oracle the way a new hire would Ready to go from day 1. Works out of Teams and email like the rest of the team. Reads orders. Enters them. Places supplier POs. Catches pricing errors before they ship... Not another dashboard. Not another integration project. Not another rip and replace. A purchase order that used to take 15 minutes now takes a few seconds. The insight came from a $ 100M manufacturer who had a full-time employee doing nothing but typing purchase orders into an ERP Not because the work was valuable. Because the software demanded it. With Walter, your software stays. The manual work disappears. 🎙️ @nikolas_keller, CEO & Co-Founder of @walterindustry on @fondocom @thestartpod Huge thanks to @UseCorgi for making this episode possible!