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The journey from financial advisers to tech entrepreneurs

Financial advisers have developed some of the most popular software in the industry, and they have the scars to show for it.

David Lyon remembers the moment he realized that all the sophisticated analyses and detailed financial work that his advisory firm produced for clients actually made their lives more difficult instead of easier.
It was 2011, and Mr. Lyon was in a quarterly meeting with his firm's biggest client, a h

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