INTERVIEW | Make Money with Social Investing: How Chris Josephs Turned the Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker Into a Fintech Company
Chris Josephs is the co-founder of Autopilot, a fintech platform that lets everyday investors automatically follow the portfolios and strategies of other investors. Before building Autopilot, Chris learned entrepreneurship by flipping sneakers as a teenager and helping grow his family’s custom sports compression business. In this episode, he explains how a simple idea to track Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades became a viral social media phenomenon with millions of followers, how he used content and distribution to grow Autopilot, and why he believes AI-powered investing could be the next major evolution in retail investing.
On this episode we talk about:
How Chris made his first money flipping sneakers as a teenager
The entrepreneurial lessons he learned from his immigrant parents and family business
Why Chris left a finance career to build a business and how living in Bali taught him to make money online
How the Nancy Pelosi stock tracker went viral and drove massive growth for Autopilot
Why storytelling and distribution can be just as important as the product itself
The rise of AI-powered investing and letting AI strategies automatically trade stocks
Why Chris believes everyday investors can benefit from following experienced investors rather than trying to pick stocks themselves
How massive companies like Amazon and Meta can use their scale and capital to make long-term bets on AI and robotics
Top 3 Takeaways
Distribution can make an ordinary product extraordinary. Chris explains how Autopilot existed alongside other automated and mirror-trading platforms, but the unique Nancy Pelosi story gave the company a memorable hook that helped it spread organically.
You don't have to do everything yourself. Rather than trying to compete with professional investors, hedge funds, quants, and AI systems, everyday investors may benefit from finding people with better expertise and automatically following their strategies.
AI is changing the way people invest. Autopilot is increasingly focused on AI-powered strategies that allow investors to follow portfolios built using models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.
Notable Quotes
"There's never been the Nancy Pelosi stock tracker."
"The growth and the distribution is more important than, you know, the product."
"We shouldn't guess what stocks to buy. We should go to a couple people on Autopilot, find someone good and let them do it for you."
Connect with Chris Josephs:
Instagram: @ChrisJJosephs
Autopilot Instagram: @Autopilot
Other: Autopilot is available on iOS and Android
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