How Wall Street Became Computerized

hen I was 15, I was enough of a consistent card game winner that a neighborhood Chicago bookmaker bankrolled me for the summer to play in the bigger stakes games with the older players in return for half my winnings. Fifteen years later I was living in London and playing professional backgammon on the international circuit. In between, I used my flair for gambling to revolutionize one of the greatest betting games of all time - by founding the company that introduced computerized trading on Wall Street.