About John Fawcett
Born 1977. John Fawcett is an American entrepreneur and chief executive officer.
John Henry "Fawce" Fawcett Jr. (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Tamale Software and Quantopian. He was the CEO of the latter. He founded Quantopian in August 2011. It aims to create a crowd-sourced hedge fund using a two-sided market for freelance quantitative analysts (algorithm developers) and investors (algorithm users). and Fawcett and his cofounder, Jean Bredeche, joined Robinhood.
In 2025, Fawcett left Robinhood and joined Citadel as the head of equities engineering.
Publications Writing for Wired magazine, Fawcett posits that Quantopian can also be used as a MOOC-like platform for higher education.
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American entrepreneur
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