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AI After Dark: Ex-JPM Trader: Why Expertise Is No Longer The Edge

Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer of Mercury Fund portfolio company, Moshi, sits down with Alex Gras to discuss how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for energy and macro traders.

Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer of Mercury Fund portfolio company, Moshi, walks through how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for energy and macro traders. Anekha and Alex Gras get into screen real estate wars on trading desks, why people lie about their workflows, building Toyotas instead of Ferraris, and what it actually takes to leave a dream job to chase a harder one.

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Alex Gras
May 12, 2026