NICHOLAS CROWN

Nicholas Crown is an American entrepreneur first known for reverse-engineering popular hiring technology, known as ATS. Moving into marketing automation and AI, in 2022, Nicholas founded FastOutreach.ai to give enterprise-grade AI marketing tools to anyone with a smartphone. As an investor, Nicholas is passionate about EVs and improving battery technology.

 

Nicholas is well-known for his viral social media series entitled "Rich vs Really Rich" that emphasizes how wealth creation starts with humility, kindness, and open-mindedness. The series generates an average of 30M impressions weekly.

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Nicholas started his career as a pit clerk in the crude oil trading ring at the New York Mercantile Exchange in 2005 where he learned from the legendary oil trader, Mark Fisher. He later joined Barclays Capital on their repo trading desk in London as an analyst, later relocating to New York to switch to the rapidly growing basis trading desk.

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In 2011, he was recruited to build a greenfield basis trading desk at the Swiss investment bank, UBS, in Stamford, CT and later, New York. Using UBS's in-house development team and a strategic partnership with an outdated trading platform, Nicholas built a co-located, fiber optic spread trading business from the ground-up. He signed flagship hedge funds, such as Millennium and Citadel to this platform and was rapidly managing trade sizes of upward to a billion dollars. He left Wall Street in 2014 to travel and build his first business.

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Outside of work, Nicholas is an award-winning guitarist and lover of travel.

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Nicholas is a graduate of Cornell University, cum laude.