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Tampa Bay Times names Vantagepoint a Top Work Place and Top 3 Small Business Workplaces

Vantagepoint AI Recognized as a Top Workplace and Top 3 Small Business Workplace by the Tampa Bay Times

I was thrilled when we were selected as one of the Top Workplaces by the Tampa Bay Times earlier this year. We strive to create a culture of respect, integrity, passion, and fun. 

Recently we were notified that not only are we a TOP Workplace but that we were named one of the Top 3 Small Business Workplaces. That was exciting!
Vantagepoint selected as top 3 small business workplaces

So many companies are moving their headquarters into the beautiful Tampa Bay area. It’s why being selected as one of the top 3 workplace cultures in Tampa by the highly respected Tampa Bay Times is so meaningful to me.

We have always worked to treat our team just as we would our family (complete with fun, in-office “sibling” rivalries), we value the people that work for us, we respect them, and we want to create a balanced work-life experience for everyone. It’s important to me that I know every name, face, and family that works for Vantagepoint.

I’m grateful that as our company has “grown-up”, we are recognized as being a great place to work. But what means even more to me is that with so many well-known names and top-notch companies, my team has chosen us and are part of creating something very special.

Lane Mendelsohn, President of Vantagepoint AI, named Leader of the Year.

Great Place to Work and Fortune Magazine Name Lane Mendelsohn a National Leader

Just before CoVID-19 reared it’s head here in the US, I was notified that had been nationally recognized by Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work.  Previously Vantagepoint was singled out as one of the top 50 small businesses in the United States for its workplace culture by Great Place to Work and Fortune.  Being recognized as the leader of a great company was really thrilling and humbling!

Beyond offering a superior product, we’ve created an award-winning workplace culture dedicated to the development of every employee, connecting diverse people to a common purpose, practicing humility and empathy, adapting to uncertainty, and fostering trusting relationships.

This is an unprecedented time in history!  It’s difficult to find things to celebrate right now.   I take my role very seriously – not only for our team but for our entire Vantagepoint family. 

But, in the midst of it all, we’ve been noticed for our culture built on innovation, teamwork, communication, positivity, passion, purpose, respect, and integrity. Those values guide our every decision and are my touchstone as a leader.

At the gala presentation in San Francisco, Great Place to Work CEO Michael C. Bush said, “The financial performance of these organizations and the industry leading commitment to corporate responsibility provide strong evidence that when you create a great place to work for all, it is better for business, better for people, and better for the world.”   I couldn’t agree more! We are an integral part of the health and vibrance of our community with our commercial and philanthropic work; and we provide education, and white-glove service to our traders in over 120 countries.  In times of uncertainity, we can be a force for good and empower traders to protect themselves in the highly volatile markets.

My goal is to provide a voice of surety and consistency for my team and our entire family of traders. I’m thankful that our software gives traders foresight and the ability to plan for change. While we are watching thousands of traders lose decades of hard-earned capital, our traders are able to mitigate their losses and even profit amidst this historic volatility. 

I’m proud to say that my entire team is here to support and empower our Vantagepoint traders.

Lane Mendelsohn, President of Vantagepoint, named Top 10 Most Innovative leaders

Top 10 Most Innovative Global AI Executive!

Recently I was recognized by Insight Analytics as one of the Most Innovative Global A.I. Executives.  It’s a huge honor to be recognized on the global stage for our company’s culture, core values, and ethics.

I really enjoyed my interview with Insight Analytics’ editors; it gave me the opportunity to stop and reflect on what makes us a leader in the world with our artificial intelligence.  We believe in empowering traders – but the secret is in the how. 

Lane Mendelsohn Named Most Innovative Global AI Exec

We’ve been at the forefront of artificial intelligence as a service to customers for over 40 years, I often say we were “fintech” before fintech even existed.  But we’ve always recognized where the source of our success lies – it’s in our traders’ success, it’s in changing people’s lives, and helping our traders to have all the tools we can supply them with to trade smarter and profit more.

This interview also reminded me that when we’re profitable and find financial freedom, it means we can do more…more for our families, more for others around us, and more for the world.  Our trading success gives us the freedom and power to do good. 

So many of our Vantagepoint Family Members are doing generous, thoughtful, amazing things!  Some of them are putting young people unrelated to them through college, others are using their trading to support themselves as they give everything to running care homes for the differently abled, and others have designated charities to be the beneficiaries of their success in their wills. Our traders inspire us!

And, it’s our traders that drive us to continue to innovate and disrupt the trading industry. My dad literally created the home trading software industry with his first software release; and I’ve been able to take our company in directions my father could never have imagined. 

It’s always gratifying to be recognized by one’s peers, but I feel this honor is bigger than me.  It’s about our team, it’s about our purpose, and it’s about you.

You can read the whole interview here.

Great Traders Pay It Forward

As you probably know, Vantagepoint is dedicated to doing well and doing good. We’ve been donating a portion of our revenue every week to Shriners Hospitals for Children.  Because of our growth as a company and because our family of traders like you has been growing too, we’ve been able to increase our philanthropic efforts!

 
We’ve added a new partner, the Children’s Cancer Center, to our charitable giving.  And this month, I’m honored to let you know that they have chosen Vantagepoint AI as their Partner of the Month for February – now that’s quite a valentine!
 

You may or may not know, I’m a cancer survivor myself.  

Knowing firsthand about cancer, I’m especially thoughtful of what it’s like for kids and their families.  And that’s what lead me to the Children’s Cancer Center. 

The Children’s Cancer Center is the only program like it in the country and they serve about 1,000 families on an on-going basis. The organization recognizes that when a child is diagnosed with cancer or a chronic blood disorder, the entire family is actually diagnosed.  This amazing organization steps up and immediately begins to help the entire family with emotional, financial, and educational support.

Here’s a quick video about our partnership with The Children’s Cancer Center:

Vantagepoint supports the Children's Cancer Center

I am thrilled that we as a company are working to support this amazing team not only with financial donations but also as part of our family. We will be involving Children’s Cancer Center families in our own fun activities when it works for them. We truly consider them part of our family. Already Trinity and her family have been part of one of our events.
 
Vantagepoint AI and The Children's Cancer Center - Partners
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As a representative of our family of traders and all of our team here in our offices, I am honored we have been selected by the Children’s Cancer Center as their Partner of the Month. If you’re a Vantagepoint Trader, thank you for helping us to make this special relationship possible; I appreciate your trust to do what’s right.
 
If you haven’t joined our family yet, I hope you’ll consider doing so; we can do even more to help children and their families as they walk through cancer – no matter their ability to pay for services. Together we can use our power for good!

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.

Wow – That Was a Surprise!

I was named one of the TOP 10 Most Influential AI Executives by Analytics Insight!

Lane Mendelsohn President of Vantagepoint AI Selected as Top 10 Most Influential AI Executives

This is really an honor! My father, Louis Mendelsohn, was ahead of his time when he started to explore how artificial intelligence could be used for better information when trading in the financial markets. I am honored that I can become the second generation of leadership for our family-owned business and help it to continue to succeed beyond our family’s wildest dreams.

My background is probably a bit different than most AI executives; I literally grew up in the company. In face, I have always been deeply involved in it.  At 15, I began working for the company full time and I developed our first website before the internet was really even a thing. Now I’ve begun involving my daughters in the business and they are so excited to be part of it.

Vantagepoint is unique in the marketplace; we continue to offer retail traders institutional level intelligence and powerful machine learning insights. I’ve been at the helm of the company for over a decade now, and one of the things I find especially gratifying is knowing that I took the foundation that my father built and expanded upon it. I have also been able to blaze new trails to keep the company at the cutting-edge of technology. I can’t wait to see what ideas my daughters will bring the family business!

People often ask me how I’ve been able to create a cutting-edge company. As I explained in the interview with Analytics Insight, we’ve built our foundation on key values: integrity, communication, passion, purpose, teamwork, positivity, innovation, and respect. These core values guide our every decision whether it’s hiring, partnerships, or selling our software. Our mission is to Empower Traders Daily, but we can only do that if we are coming from the right place and serving our customers (and our employees) from the foundation of these values.  If we try to short cut any of these, our success will be compromised.  We, as both my family and as our bigger family of team members and traders, have worked hard to create something – we will never risk it by cutting corners.

Read the full article about this total surprise of an award the Vantagepoint Blog.

In short, I’m very honored and totally surprised to be recognized.  It’s truly all about our traders and serving them in the best ways we can.

About Vantagepoint

Vantagepoint AI is a worldwide leader in artificial intelligence software to empower traders in the financial markets.  Vantagepoint software provide trend forecasts up to 3 days before trends moves with up to 86% accuracy.  Traders and investors using Vantagepoint’s artificial intelligence enjoy an edge and insight into the market that allows them to make smarter trading decisions.  See how Vantagepoint works with a demo at www.vantagepointsoftware.com/demo or by calling 1-800-732-5407.

About Vantagepoint AI, LLC. Headquartered in Wesley Chapel, Fla., Vantagepoint AI, creators of Vantagepoint Software, is a leader in trading software research and software development. Vantagepoint forecasts Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, and ETFs with proven accuracy of up to 86%. Using artificial intelligence, Vantagepoint’s patented Neural Network processes predict changes in market trend direction up to three days in advance, enabling traders to get in and out of trades at optimal times with confidence. Vantagepoint is also actively committed to giving back in the Tampa Bay community and to Shriners Hospitals for Children donating more than $650,000 since 2007.

Empowering Traders Daily

We love hearing from our Vantagepoint family of traders about how our software is changing their lives.

Remo wrote me to let me know how excited he is about Vantagepoint.

Empowering Traders Daily — it’s our thing. 🙂

“Hello Mr. Mendelsohn
I am very happy with the software, because it gives me something very important – confidence in my decisions.

Thank you for your invitation on Facebook and for letting me see a bit behind the scenes in your world. Family is very important for you, same for me. And a special thanks to you father, he is just a genius!

I thought I would send you a few pics from my loved parents, my younger brother and me. These people helped me a lot in my life. Now i am able to give something back because of you Lane! That means so extremely much to me!!

This whole experience is absolutely outstanding for me!! 
I send my very best wishes to you and your sweet family.”

Remo L.
Vantagepoint Family Member, Switzerland