Numerai's Master Plan – Numerai – Medium

When Numerai launched in December 2015, it was a one page website that looked like a Kaggle data science competition except everything was black and more cinematic. We didn't want it to look like any other hedge fund in the world -- because we weren't. We spent all this time on design and shooting videos (like this and this), and it seemed like a big distraction. The core idea of Numerai was to give away all of our data for free, and let anyone train machine learning algorithms on it and submit predictions to our hedge fund. This was a very counterintuitive idea.