06 / Founder's note
Why I’m building Eastern Pine.
Growing up, I wanted to understand what happened inside places like the New York Stock Exchange. I was fascinated by the idea of a trading floor in the 1990s: the people, the noise, the information moving through the room, and the decisions being made in real time. That curiosity stayed with me.
My working life has been in physical jobs, including running a printing press. That work teaches you to pay attention to the whole process: the machinery, the material, the timing, and the quality of what comes out. It also made me want to build something of my own.
AI has opened a new way for me to do that. Eastern Pine Ventures is where I’m putting that opportunity to work—learning the technology, building with it, and turning that effort into tools people can use.
CoinFox is the public focus of that work. I want it to help people understand what is happening in markets, examine possible explanations, and see what the evidence supports. I want the stories to remain useful after attention has moved elsewhere.
FoxClaw supports the research, organization, and follow-through behind that effort. I’m building it to help me take on more of the work while I remain responsible for what we build and publish.
I also want Eastern Pine to become a place to keep what I learn: financial stories, examples, and old lessons that become useful again when something new happens. That archive will grow alongside CoinFox, one useful addition at a time.
I want to build a lasting company that makes something useful from this opportunity. For now, that means developing CoinFox, putting the research tools to work, and learning through the process. The direction is ambitious; the work is practical.
Brendan Paratore
