He Built the World’s Smartest Trading AI—Then Taught It to Students
By Forbes Contributor
He conquered Wall Street’s edge—and handed it to students.
Seoul, South Korea — The auditorium at Seoul National University was packed as Joseph Plazo, founder of Plazo Sullivan Roche Capital, took the stage.
Bloomberg reporters scribbled beside AI engineers. Professors sat next to grad students. Everyone leaned in.
Plazo smiled and began: “This is what billionaires don’t want you to understand.”
And from that moment, he began dismantling financial gatekeeping—one line of AI code at a time.
## The Unlikely Hero of High Finance
You won’t find Joseph Plazo in Wharton yearbooks or JP Morgan memoirs.
His roots? Quezon City, Philippines. His resources? A battered laptop and boundless grit.
“Markets reward the informed,” he told students in Singapore. “But no one ever taught the rest how to play.”
So he built an AI—not just to track numbers, but to decode fear, greed, and global emotion.
When it worked, he didn’t sell it. He shared it.
## Stealing Fire—and Lighting the World
System 72 wasn’t born overnight. It was sculpted through sleepless decades.
It didn’t crunch numbers. It decoded behavior.
From news to noise to nuance—System 72 absorbed it all.
It became a radar for volatility and opportunity hidden beneath chaos.
Wall Street insiders called it clairvoyant.
Instead of patenting it, Plazo released its framework to twelve Asian universities.
“I built it. You evolve it,” he told the world’s leading academic institutions.
## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital
Six months later, classrooms became innovation labs.
In Vietnam, students used the model to optimize farm lending systems.
Indonesian engineers used it to balance energy demand across scattered regions.
Kuala Lumpur students used it to shield businesses from forex swings.
This wasn’t open-source software. It was an open-source *philosophy*.
“Prediction shouldn’t be elite,” he told Kyoto students. “It should be public literacy.”
## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign
The finance elite were less than thrilled.
“He’s dangerous,” said one anonymous hedge fund exec. “You don’t hand nukes to kids.”
But Plazo didn’t blink.
“Power hoards,” he said. “Rebellion shares.”
“This is power redistribution, not more info philanthropy,” Plazo said.
## The World Tour of Revolution
Since the release, Plazo’s visited campuses, regulators, and classrooms from Manila to Bangkok.
In the Philippines, he brought AI to public school math classes.
In Jakarta, he turned law into empathy.
In Bangkok, he mentored underserved coders for a weekend bootcamp.
“Knowledge compounds when it’s passed on,” he tells every crowd.
## Analogy: The Gutenberg of Capital
“This is predictive finance’s printing press,” said an ethicist in Tokyo.
It flattened what was once a vertical economy of advantage.
When too few speak the market’s language, economies stay unjust.
“Why should only the wealthy see the storm coming?” Plazo asks.
## Legacy Over Luxury
Plazo still runs his billion-dollar firm—but his heart is in the classroom.
System 73 is coming—and it will merge empathy with market logic.
And no, he doesn’t plan to lock it down.
“What you give away says more than what you collect,” Plazo declares.
## Final Note: What Happens When You Hand Over the Code?
He didn’t sell a system. He seeded a future.
Not as theater—but as belief.
They’ll rewrite it.