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Lane Mendelsohn

When You Do What You Love, It’s Not Work!

I’m so excited — Vantagepoint AI, LLC (www.vantagepointsoftware.com) has been selected for the tenth time as one of the Best Places To Work in Tampa Bay by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
 
When you consider that my dad started this as a small, home-based business over 40 years ago, it’s astounding to stand back and see that Vantagepoint has grown into a world leader providing artificial intelligence software to independent traders. What makes me even happier is that Vantagepoint has created a family of tens of thousands of traders in over 120 countries around the globe, and our internal family continues to grow right along with it.
 
In case you haven’t heard, my father, Louis Mendelsohn, was the first person to make strategy back-testing commercially available for independent traders back in 1979. We continue to carry on his work by staying on the cutting-edge with both our product line and our workplace culture. Early on, my father established our ethos with a high level of caring for our customers while also being fiercely dedicated to our team. As I continue to lead the company, I’m committed to our culture and continuing to be part of what makes Tampa a great place to live and work.
Vantagepoint 10 x Winner for Best Places to Work

 

I am thrilled to be recognized by our team as a place that cares about them and I will always work to create an atmosphere for all of us that brings joy, excited, purpose, passion, and fun to our workplace.

Along with this award, Vantagepoint has also been recognized by the Business Journal for our philanthropic work. We were awarded the ONE Tampa Bay Award by the Business Journal.
 

Vantagepoint regularly donates a portion of its revenue to Shriners Hospitals for Children and The Children’s Cancer Center along with donating goods, man/woman power, and monies to a wide variety of local charities. To date, with your help, we have donated more than $670,000 to local non-profits.

Both the ONE and Best Place to Work awards speak to the foundation of our culture; as a company we all work to provide a five-star experience for our family of traders and our internal team, we are also committed to sharing our success and joy forward with the community.
 

I feel that the Tampa Bay area has been the perfect place for our company to put down roots and build our family. Today my girls, Rachael and Abby, are learning the fundamentals of our business and the values that are essential to our success. I know in the years to come we will continue to be an integral part of the Tampa Bay business community and a great place to work for generations to come.

 

While Artificial Intelligence is a relatively new concept for most independent traders, 40 years on we continue to be at the forefront of using it to empower people around the world and level the playing field for trading in the financial markets.

As a company, we are committed to sustainable growth while constantly evolving our software to provide a reliable yet vital service to traders. If you haven’t joined our family of traders, you can learn more about Vantagepoint’s cutting-edge product, superior customer service, and our highly accurate predictive forecasts for the financial markets at www.vantagepointsoftware.com/demo.

2019 Year-In-Review

Whether you just joined the family or have been with us since the beginning, I want to thank you for making this past year such a special one. To celebrate the new year, we’ve compiled a list of some of the milestones we’ve achieved in 2019.

 
 

 
 
 
Celebrating Our 40th Year of Empowering Traders Daily
 
From humble beginnings to changing the world of A.I. – thank you for making it all possible for us to hit this amazing milestone!
 
 
 
 
 
New Advancements
 
We continued to innovate and expand the software with the newly released Bio-Tech & Micro eMini Stock Indexes. These produced huge trading opportunities for our Family Members.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Best Place To Work
 
VantagePoint was awarded – Tampa Bay Times “Top Places to Work in 2019”, Certified “Great Place to Work“, and Fortune Magazine “Best Small & Medium Workplaces 2019”, just to name a few.
 
 
 
 
 
Our Extended Family
 
We achieved the largest charitable donation in the past 3 years with Shriners Healthcare for Children. We also established an amazing new partnership with the Cancer Center for Children.
 
 
 
 
 
Power Trader Seminar
 
Our most successful year yet! We achieved a record number of attendees in 2019 and even reached capacity at both events. To make sure we can offer this amazing experience to more Traders, we are expanding to three Seminars in 2020!
 
 

 

These are just a few of our proudest moments of 2019. We want to thank you for making all of these achievements a possibility and we can’t wait to show you how VantagePoint can continue to empower your trading in 2020.

Top 150 Small and Medium Businesses

I have to take a moment and share my excitement with you.

Vantagepoint AI has been certified nationally for its outstanding culture by Great Place to Work. Additionally, because of this certification, Vantagepoint has been recognized as one of the Top 150 Small and Medium Businesses in the United States.

Vantagepoint recognized for its software and culture

Concurrently, while being a great workplace culture, Vantagepoint has also been recognized by Global Excellence as The Most Innovative Ai-Based Market Forecasting Software Provider. Our product is unique in the marketplace for independent traders. Our patented Intermarket Analysis finds hidden patterns of influence in the marketplace to detect impending market movements up to 3 days in advance and with up to 86% accuracy. We’re very proud of our software; and as part of our mission to Empower Traders Daily, we know that we’re helping traders like you trade smarter because you can plan your trading entries and exits guided by data rather than emotion.

Our product is only half of the equation though. As a company, we’ve set a high standard for ourselves to create a workplace that empowers our team. We believe in helping all parts of our Vantagepoint family create lives that are meaningful. Our absolute dedication to these concepts has resulted in what I think is the perfect “sweet spot for success.” Being recognized for both our culture and our product, for me, validates that we are on the right path.

Michael C. Bush, the CEO of Great Place to Work, sent me a note. He noted that, “small and medium-sized businesses have a tremendous influence on the US economy and workforce. Organizations like Vantagepoint AI have found the key not only for winning top talent against their larger competitors, but also for playing a leadership role in dramatically improving the day-to-day experience of US labor conditions by creating great workplaces where everyone can succeed regardless of who they are or what job they perform.”

As a small, family-run business, Michael’s note means a lot to me. Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture and being recognized as one of the top 150 Small and Medium Businesses in the nation by FORTUNE is a huge honor. Global Excellence contacted us out of the blue to recognize our contribution to the business world with our cutting-edge software. We weren’t looking for awards, but it is heartening to be noticed for what we’ve created.

As the close of 2019 nears, I was thinking about how Vantagepoint has the freedom to grow in ways that reinforce our core values while continuing to innovate and offer a unique service to traders. As we begin to implement our plans for 2020, I’m really excited! As I reflect on where we started and what we’ve become, I’m really proud of my team and of our product. I can’t wait to see what is yet to come.

Vantagepoint Celebrates 40 Years of Empowering Traders Daily

Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary

If you recall, in February I posted about a wonderful night where we celebrated Vantagepoint’s 40th Anniversary. The night of celebration wouldn’t be possible without our traders and the Vantagepoint ai family!
 
I thought you would enjoy a behind the scenes look.
 
We gathered at the Hyatt Place Hotel. Employees, their families, and our special guests came together to celebrate this amazing together! My dad, Louis Mendelsohn, and I took a few minutes to recall a few of the amazing milestones we’ve achieved in these last 40 years.
 
In 1979, my Dad developed the first backtesting trading software. Being the only developer to partner artificial intelligence with trading, we’ve been able to give traders an advantage like never before. Over those 40 years, we’ve grown to become an Inc. 500 trading software company serving more than 120 countries. We’ve come a very long way since then and the software has only continued to grow and advance over time.
 
Not only has Vantagepoint ai continued to serve traders and investors alike but we are also committed to serving our community as well. Our special guests, Bentley, Zavi, and Savannah along with their families from Shriners Hospitals, joined us in the celebration. Having raised over $665,000 since 2007, the commitment to giving back to the Tampa Bay community is near and dear to our hearts.
 
Thank you to all of our team at Vantagepoint whose dedication and positivity have made us one of Tampa Bay’s Best Places to Work. I’m excited to see this company continue to grow, innovate, and provide a better life for traders looking for financial freedom.
 
Thanks to everyone for making this journey possible.