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🧭 Mission

Our mission is to be the retail trader’s smartest assistant. We understand the frustrations that traders face when using various tools that fail to meet their needs or generate consistent alpha. Invsto aims to simplify this experience by providing the fastest and most efficient tools that take you from research to go-live seamlessly.

To be the SuperApp for everything trading and investing

🔍 Vision

Inspired by industry leaders like Quantopian, Robinhood, Coinbase, Zerodha, and TradingView, we strive to revolutionize trading by offering an all-in-one ecosystem that integrates real-time data, AI-driven analytics, and lightning-fast execution. Our goal is to empower traders with unparalleled market insights and performance across all asset classes.

The Invsto Vision is to be the UX for next 100 million traders.

⚖️ Our Operating Principles

The principles articulated here detail the everyday behaviours we focus on, our core traits, and what we expect of our leaders – and all are rooted in the core expectation that Invsto operate with high integrity, maturity, and respect for others at all times.

Problem Obsession Rather Than Competitor Focus

Knowing is something you read or come across as information. Information if not applied anywhere is simply data without insight. Learning is when you understand what you are doing. The easiest way to measure your learning is by teaching to others. At Invsto, we want to focus on problems and learning things that can help you solve the problem. Learning comes naturally with problem solving. Do not focus on what a competitor is building, instead ask if they are solving the problem in the most efficient possible manner. Problem and opportunity go hand in hand. Try solving harder problems.

Compounding in everyday work: focus on consistency over longer term

Compounding can be seen in every that you do. Focus on choosing the right problem first, choosing whom you work with next and finally how much time you spend on the problem, in that order. It took more than 15 years for Zerodha to become what it is today. Every action taken towards a goal brings in experience.

Extreme experimentation with a risk-reward mindset

If you check how some of the best companies TSLA, AMZN, F have been built, all of them have one thing in common - experimentation and lots of it. Every exceptional individual, no matter which field, has put in the time and energy (compounding) and constantly bettered themselves at different points (through experimentation). Risk and reward go hand in hand. Have a calculated risk taking approach towards experimenting and if something doesn't work despite multiple attempts, move on and come back to it another day.

How We Work:

• Listen to customers: Your product may have features that the customer may not expect, but he/she knows exactly what your product doesn’t do right.  Listen to customers to improve your product. If there are no customers, then there is no reason why your product should exist.
• Hire people better than you: The only way you can get better is if you learn from someone who does something better than you do.
• Ship early, Ship fast: Your primary goal as a developer is build something that “ships”. Your goal is not to spend your entire time building something that remains in your basement, but build something that goes live. Spend time getting your code to ship early. Build things to ship.
• Collaborate, ask for help: Asking your teammate for help is a “good” thing. If you’re spending time (say more than a week) building something and go nowhere, there is a good chance: - You are looking at things the wrong way - You can get this done much faster with help Ask for help, get things to ship fast.
• Be a community of builders. Ship fast and often. Emphasize on doing end to end iteration in simplest possible manner and do it many times over with small improvements.
• Spend more time on what works and less time on what doesn't: If a feature is working well, gathering more attention from users etc, focus on what is working first. Wish list and untested items can always be done later.  Eg: Tradingview is good to have feature, but more complex to integrate with nuances, prioritize end to end charting first and Tradingview much later.
• Consistency over long term The only goal is to be consistently good, over the long term.
• Do more things on what you want to do Spend more time doing things you want to do and what you are good at, there will always be some items that you are either not good at or not wanting to do. Sometimes, it is unavoidable over the short term but over the longer term, always do more things that you want to do

Principles on Management:

• Caring for team members
• Set clear goals and expectations