Forum

Forum

The first exchange to trade on attention.

New York City, NY
2 employees
Seed

About Forum

Forum is building the first exchange to trade on cultural attention.

We create indices from search, social, and streaming data to measure what the world cares about, enabling users to go long or short on changes in relevance.

Attention is the primary driver of business success in the digital age, but it has never been directly tradable. Forum introduces attention as a new asset class for managing cultural and demand risk.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationNew York City, NY

Funding

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Joseph Thomas

Joseph Thomas

Co-founder of Forum. Prev SWE @ GEICO, NASA, and DreamwaveAI.

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Owen Botkin

Owen Botkin

Dropped out of Northwestern; previously traded long/short equities at Balyasny Asset Management.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.