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Code Story is a podcast featuring founders, tech leaders, CTO's, CEO's, and software architects, reflecting on their human story in creating world changing, disruptive digital products.

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Building Stripe for Investing with Yoshi Yokokawa

Code Story podcast episode featuring Yoshi Yokokawa, founder of Alpaca, discussing how he pivoted from building deep neural net prediction models to creating a developer-friendly API platform for trading US stocks. The episode covers his journey from Lehman Brothers to building what is described as "Stripe for Investing," scaling Alpaca's trading APIs globally.

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Summary

Code Story podcast episode featuring Yoshi Yokokawa, founder of Alpaca, discussing how he pivoted from building deep neural net prediction models to creating a developer-friendly API platform for trading US stocks. The episode covers his journey from Lehman Brothers to building what is described as "Stripe for Investing," scaling Alpaca's trading APIs globally.

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fintech · api · trading · startup · podcast · alpaca · brokerage

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Yoshi Yokokawa (person, 0.99) · Alpaca (organization, 0.98) · Noah Labhart (person, 0.9) · Lehman Brothers (organization, 0.85) · Stripe (organization, 0.7) · Trading APIs (technology, 0.95) · Deep Neural Net Prediction Models (concept, 0.85) · Code Story (organization, 0.92) · Japan (location, 0.9)

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transcript · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 11 Aug 2026