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Didier Lopes

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, OpenBB

Search every verified Didier Lopes interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Didier Lopes, founder and CEO of OpenBB, appeared on The Hedgineer Podcast in August 2025, where he discussed the company's evolution from a retail-focused terminal to enterprise AI tools. He recounted that host Michael Watson first contacted him in 2021 after Lopes shared his "Gamestonk Terminal" on r/wallstreetbets, and that Watson's LinkedIn message later became part of OpenBB's pitch deck. Lopes said OpenBB is "completely out of the data business," describing how the company pivoted after realizing that many data vendors sell user interfaces as a distribution mechanism while remaining data businesses at their core. During the conversation, Lopes also shared his views on AI's impact on asset management, stating he envisions a future where multi-billion-dollar asset managers operate with fewer than ten people, relying on expert-provided context and clean data for autonomous micro-decisions. He described using AI tools not for writing code but for decision-making, such as running risk decomposition analyses through a command-line interface and documenting results in structured formats.

Recent appearances

  • OpenBB Workspace Demo: Portfolio Analysis, Apps Marketplace, MCP & AI Agents

    July 31, 2026 · 📺 OpenBB

    Didier Lopes (CEO) walks through a full OpenBB Workspace session, from dashboard configuration to multi-source data analysis and automated reporting. This demo covers: 00:00 My Apps overview and dashboard configuration 00:14 Adding widgets, grouping parameters, creating new tabs 01:18 Portfolio holdings from Factset via Snowflake, SQL view 01:42 OpenBB Copilot generates pie charts that are added into the dashboard 02:27 Filtering queries live 02:45 Apps Marketplace and OpenBB Docs MCP for dataset discovery 04:05 Connecting EIA energy data from the marketplace 04:21 Analyzing EIA data against…

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  • Control Systems and Electrical Engineering to AI in Finance

    March 03, 2026 · 📺 Dimitri Bianco

    Didier Lopes studied control systems and electrical engineering in Europe before moving to the United States to build OpenBB, a next-generation financial research workspace. Frustrated by how fragmented data, analysis, and decision-making tools were across finance and other industries, Didier set out to create a professional-grade platform where teams can bring their data, analytics, and AI into one unified environment. Before founding OpenBB, he worked on cutting-edge technologies ranging from self-driving cars to wearable fitness devices, following a deep curiosity for complex systems and…

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  • From Viral Reddit Tool to Enterprise AI: The OpenBB Story with Didier Lopes | S2E2

    August 26, 2025 · 📺 The Hedgineer Podcast

    Welcome back to Season 2 of The Hedgineer Podcast, where host Michael Watson talks data, AI, and technology in the hedge fund and asset management space. In this episode, Michael sits down with Didier Lopes, the founder of OpenBB, for a conversation that started five years ago during the meme stock boom. Michael reached out to Didier in 2021 after he shared his "Gamestonk Terminal" on r/wallstreetbets. Michael reached out to Didier if he was interested in a job on his team at Citadel but Didier had other ideas. That initial LinkedIn message from Michael ended up in the pitch deck that helped…

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  • Webinar - The Next Chapter: AI Meets the OpenBB Workspace

    October 17, 2024 · 📺 OpenBB

    Welcome to the first live demo of the new OpenBB Workspace! It's the first AI-powered workspace designed to transform research and data analysis. Now with a free tier. Try it at https://pro.openbb.co 🦋 Join our community to share ideas, give feedback, and get support:   / discord   Find us on social media:   / openbb_finance     / openbb-finance   Feel free to connect with the presenters on LinkedIn:   / didier-lopes     / james-maslek     / michael-struwig   _____________ 00:00 - Introduction by Didier Lopes 16:23 - How to Extract AI Insights by Michael Struwig 35:35 - How to Bring Your…

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  • Integrating an open-source AI financial analyst into OpenBB

    September 30, 2024 · 📺 OpenBB

    We were excited to have our CEO, Didier Lopes, represent OpenBB at the NY AI Meetup on August 7th. Read our blog post to learn everything about his presentation and what we believe should be the future of financial analysis: https://openbb.co/blog/openbb-at-the-...

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  • AI x Wall Street - OpenBB Demo

    May 27, 2024 · 📺 OpenBB

    Discover how traditional Wall Street firms are leveraging state-of-the-art AI into their workflow. The OpenBB Terminal Pro is now available for everyone to get started here: http://pro.openbb.co. More information can be found here: http://openbb.co/ai Chapters 0:00 - Introduction 1:26 - AI-enabled Research 19:01 - State-of-the-art Forecasting 27:26 - The Future 31:32 - Bring your own data and own copilot 38:29 - Sharing capability

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  • ClueCon Weekly with Didier Lopes [Episode 24]

    February 21, 2024 · 📺 FreeSWITCH

    Joining us this week is Didier Lopes from the open source project, Open BB. Open BB is focused on building the most advanced investment research tools accessible to everyone. As a Software Developer and an AI/ML enthusiast, Didier decided to leverage modern data science tools to help make sense out of investing. As a young investor, he looked for research tools about investing and couldn't find anything helpful. Born was Open BB! Learn more about the open-source project and how you can contribute, use and benefit from using it! Links to connect with Didier: My Twitter:   / didier_lopes…

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  • Supabase + OpenBB

    December 19, 2023 · 📺 Supabase

    Copple chats to Didier Lopes, the cofounder of OpenBB, about their origin story, their Supabase integration, and whether he prefers to fight ducks or horses.

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  • Fintech CEO Fireside Chat: Open Source Fintech Ft. OpenBB

    December 13, 2023 · 📺 Intrinio

    In our latest Fintech CEO Fireside Chat, our CEO dives in with Didier Lopes, the Founder & CEO of OpenBB. Topics Covered: 🌎 Open-source and "freemium" business models 😱 Competing with Bloomberg 🖥️ Reinventing the "terminal" 💰 Startup fundraising 📈 How to scale a startup 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏽 Retail & institutional investment trends & more!! The Intrinio Fintech CEO Fireside Chat is a webinar series featuring top fintech CEOs in intimate discussions with Intrinio CEO, Rachel Carpenter - covering the hottest trends, topics, and lessons learned in the fintech space, plus candid advice and stories from the CE…

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  • Creating an AI-powered financial analyst with OpenBB - Didier Lopes at Open Core Summit 2023

    December 13, 2023 · 📺 OpenBB

    investing #opensource #finance #OpenBB #python.

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  • OpenBB Workspace Early Alpha - The new FinAI Tech Stack

    December 13, 2023 · 📺 OpenBB

    Didier Lopes, CEO of OpenBB, presented the OpenBB Platform and the OpenBB Workspace at the event "The new FinAI Tech Stack" hosted by MindsDB in SF, California. Get early access to the Workspace here: https://my.openbb.co/app/pro/early-ac... Watch the full event's recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/UvpQCj_Y...

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  • Making Investment Data Easy To Access And Analyze With The OpenBB Terminal

    December 09, 2023 · 📺 Tobias Macey

    Summary Investing effectively is largely a game of information access and analysis. This can involve a substantial amount of research and time spent on finding, validating, and acquiring different information sources. In order to reduce the barrier to entry and provide a powerful framework for amateur and professional investors alike Didier Rodrigues Lopes created the OpenBB Terminal. In this episode he explains how a pandemic project that started as an experiment has led to him founding a new company and dedicating his time to growing and improving the project and its community. Announcem…

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