Green, Gray or Red: A Traffic Light for the Stock Market | Sean Tepper, Tykr

Most people open a brokerage account and then freeze. Every blog and analyst says something different, and the default move is to guess or hand your money to someone else.Sean Tepper lived that. He started investing around 2010, made some money, lost some money, and hit the pause button in 2015 before it got expensive. Then he went looking for what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger were actually doing, and concluded they were not picking stocks on feel. They were starting with math.So he built the math into a spreadsheet, tested it privately for five years rather than five weeks, and turned it into Tykr: a platform that rates stocks like a traffic light. Green means on sale, gray means watch, red means overpriced. Duolingo style lessons sit underneath it, because the goal is not to hand someone a signal, it is to make them an investor who does not need one.And he is raising. About $600K in on roughly a $1.3M target, running on WeFunder, funded largely by the same retail investors who already pay for the product. He walks through why he chose angels over VCs, why he intends to keep 100 percent control, and the Kohler and Costco story behind his plan to reach a million subscribers.TIMESTAMPS00:00 Intro: the red light00:25 The 90 second pitch: Tykr, 13,000 customers, 50 countries01:16 Origin story: 20 years in tech and the 2015 pause button02:17 Phil Town, Buffett and Munger, and the math behind value investing02:43 Five years of testing before writing a single line of code03:13 Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, Simply Wall St and a thin field03:41 A year to build, live in 202004:09 Bring customers into the build early (lessons from GE and Kohler)04:58 Broker connections and the point of activation06:10 Why not be a wealth manager or a broker? Choosing the wide moat07:06 Only five or six reliable analytics platforms exist worldwide08:16 The biggest surprise after 1,000 customer calls: it was never returns09:04 Confidence is the product, education is the delivery09:59 Where ChatGPT, Claude and TikTok gurus actually fit10:28 Open source calculations and the guy who quit trying to rebuild them11:19 The one thing AI cannot do: sync your broker (Benzinga, Nov 2025)12:29 Protecting IP: $10,000 with a patent firm and why he walked away13:26 Hiring a second firm to audit for the publisher exclusion14:48 Why WeFunder: the partner who said "your customers will invest in you"15:44 Use of funds and the three SaaS metrics that make every dollar work16:57 The customer: 18 to 65, 70/30 male to female, 50 percent US18:38 Sports betting, prediction markets, and why he sees them as a feeder20:01 Fundraising status: $600K raised, $1.3M target, cash flow positive next20:59 The Kohler playbook: $15 million of product through Costco in one day21:40 Affiliates as the growth engine, and the road to 1 million subscribers22:13 Bootstrapper to fundraiser: how the founder role has to change22:52 Angels over VCs, keeping 100 percent control, and smart money24:26 What keeps him up at night, and the six week breaking point25:22 Hiring an affiliate agency and getting work off his plate26:14 Where to start: tykr.com, 30 day free trial, $15 a month or $99 a yearCONNECTTykr, 30 day free trial: https://tykr.com Invest in Tykr on WeFunder: https://wefunder.com/tykrDisclaimer: For informational and educational purposes only. This is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and it is not an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security. Any Reg CF offering may only be made through the company's official Form C and offering page filed with the SEC on a registered funding portal. Review those materials, including all risk factors, before investing. Early stage investing is illiquid and carries a high risk of total loss. All returns, metrics, projections and valuation figures discussed are the speaker's own numbers or illustrative examples and are not guarantees of future results. Past performance does not indicate future results. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;'