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The Making of a Market Maker: Thomas Peterffy and Interactive Brokers

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Show Notes

How Thomas Peterffy built the machines that killed the trading floor and made Interactive Brokers into a $100 billion business

Written by Dom Cooke

Read by Scott Brick

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