World's largest multistrat hedge fund asks Substack author for bulk access; he refuses
firstadopter · x · 2026-11-03
The author says the world's largest multi-strategy hedge fund emailed him asking to subscribe to his paid Substack so its data engineers could ingest his work into an internal research system, hinting this might lead to more subscriptions. He refused, arguing the firm just wants to cheaply extract and redistribute his signal rather than properly pay for it.
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