The Trader Who Builds Billion-Dollar Companies: Tom Sosnoff on Thinkorswim, Tasty, and What Comes Next

About this episode

Tom Sosnoff discusses his journey from trading on the CBOE to building billion-dollar companies in financial services.

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Tom Sosnoff, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in financial services. Tom spent 19 years on Chicago’s CBOE trading floor and then left to build Thinkorswim, the first online broker specialized in options, which he sold to TD Ameritrade for $600 million. He then built Tastytrade and sold it nine years later for a billion dollars to IG Group. He is now building Lossdog, a career optimization platform to help fight wealth inequality. What I enjoyed the mos...

People in this episode

Host: Miguel Armaza

Guest: Tom Sosnoff

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• financial services
• options trading
• wealth inequality
• career optimization

Keywords

• Tom Sosnoff
• Thinkorswim
• Tastytrade
• wealth inequality
• career optimization
• options trading
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Thinkorswim, TD Ameritrade, Tastytrade, IG Group, Lossdog

Places: Chicago, CBOE

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