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Brian Huang

Brian Huang

Co-founder and CEO of Glider, an a16z-backed automated onchain investing platform; MIT grad and former HFT trader at XTX Markets and product lead at Anchorage Digital.

Aug 21, 2026

3:16
But what is your take on stocks on chain and other kinds of assets that are Not crypto, degen, speculative things, but things that like normal people would want to hold and trade and buy.
3:29
Yeah.
3:30
I mean, first and foremost, we think of stocks as an access product.
3:33
You have to realize that 80% of the world does not have access to U.S. equity markets.
3:39
That's 6 billion people.
3:40
That's a lot of people.
3:42
And the U.S. equity markets are some of the longest and best performing companies, stocks in the world.
7:02
Superstate was the other one I was thinking of.
41:38
So Brian, where are you seeing the biggest RO- ROI at GM stores? Is it sales, service? I- is it a- another area? Where are you seeing the biggest ROI?
41:47
There are two, uh, really big interesting, uh, use cases for that right now.
41:51
I'll kind of, like, divide it between, uh, sales and service.
41:54
On, uh, the fixed op side, uh, we're seeing a lot of inbound from an inbound standpoint.
42:00
So basically, customers calling and texting, uh, into the, the dealership.
42:04
Uh, most of our, our call volume is for the, the fixed ops department, and, and so we're booking all these, these very, these high, uh, high margin service appointments, uh, on behalf of the dealership to keep, keep the service drive, uh, full at all times.
42:20
Um, and that's where you typically will find the biggest leakage in calls as well when you think about, like, the industry-wide 30 to 40% of missed calls.

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47:33
What are the characteristics of dealers that are embracing it and winning it with AI in July of '26, Brian?
DannyHOST
8:44
I, I wonder like from your POV, i- is there a particular pain point that kind of jumped out to you that made you think, you know, w- we can, we can build something much better with Glider, or is it just sort of all across the board, like just realizing that w- we're kind of lacking in a variety of areas here?
9:02
Yeah.
9:03
I, I'll say two things.
9:04
So first, uh, Glider is also B2B, and so there are ways to take, you know, let's say the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio, a healthcare ETF, and embed these into wallets.
9:15
And so we're already working with many wallets, base wallets, et cetera, to embed these into these avenues as a new revenue stream for them.
9:24
I think the second thing that we have to realize is that wallets are built for crypto native people.
9:29
Um, you know, having somebody download a Chrome extension is friction-full enough that most people are never going to do that, and that's before they even transfer money in, they find an app, they use it, they understand what it means.

9 MINS LATER

DannyHOST
18:26
So, um, I guess can you talk to me about specifically, like, how you are automating some of these strategies? Is, you know, are you using models under the hood that, you know, have context and they know what they're doing? Or, and, and what may be some of those, like, core common kind of automations look like?

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