An objective view on the future of money — by investors, distributed to the world.
Why we exist
The data you need to actually understand a company already exists — it’s just scattered across filings, buried in forums, or priced behind a subscription that costs more than most people have in the market. The Distributed started in 2021 as one investor’s way of keeping up with it. It’s grown since, but the job hasn’t changed: read what the market’s saying, measure it, put it next to the price and the numbers that explain it, and hand it back to you, free. Our product is what we distribute to you — not you.
What we believe
What we stand forA complicated industry requires simple explanations
Markets are made to sound harder than they are. We translate them plainly, without dumbing the numbers down.
Facts over opinions. Never sided.
We give you the data and the method, then let you form your own view. We don’t tell you what to buy, and we don’t take a side.
Transparency fosters trust
Every figure shows its source and its sample size. If we can’t show you how a number was derived, we don’t publish it.
Honest about the limits
Sentiment is a signal, not a price target. We label anything AI-assisted, and we say plainly where the model struggles — sarcasm, for one.
Independence
The Distributed isn’t funded by outside capital, and no one outside this team decides what gets published. Any sponsorship or ad is clearly labelled, so you always know where a commercial interest sits. We publish what the data shows, whether it’s popular or not. When we get a figure wrong, we fix it and note the change on the piece. Accuracy is a habit, not a press release.
The team
Founder-led, four bylines
Daniel Stergiou
Builds the pipeline end to end, from the Reddit streams to the sentiment scores you read, and writes the occasional longer piece.
Eric Nkando
Covers crypto, stablecoins, and the regulation closing in around them.
Jared Kirui
Covers equities, markets, and the money moving between them.
Eman Shaikh
Covers banks, central banks, and the machinery of the financial system.
The Distributed has been shaped over the years by contributors Md Ishtiaque Ahmed, Stanko Illiev, Joshua Olatunji, Angel Sanchez, Olusegun Adesua, Md Mainul Alam, Charlie Mchaileh, Jeane Claude Vasquez, Quân Lee and Md. Subhan.
A note from the founder
I built this for myself first. I was a student with more curiosity than money, and the data I wanted was either paywalled or scattered across filings, tickers, and forums I had to piece together by hand. So I started keeping my own notes, then building my own tools. Other people wanted the same thing, so I kept going. Nothing ships here unless I’d actually use it myself.
— Daniel