On LinkedIn, my peers say my top three business attributes are: 1) Entrepreneurship, 2) Strategic Planning, and 3) Leadership.

Others might say I am a futurist or innovator, as I have been first to market in several business endeavors. Personally, I think I am more of an ‘innovative capitalistic opportunist,’ but I don’t think that’s necessarily a thing.

If you were completely bored and Googled “Des W Woodruff” you would see various things such as my stock trading education content, Forbes and other publishing's about me as the CEO of Valor Bare Knuckle, LLC, or me being a former Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki) Stock Mentor, and maybe even something about my proprietary trading algorithms used for professional investing by institutional investors.

Since 2007, I’ve owned FreeTradingVideos.com, Inc dba Grok Trade, which is a respected trading education company. Like a radio personality, but on the internet. I’ve amassed followers from 162 countries who tune in to listen to my financial commentary.

Stock trading has led me into the hedge fund world and also to the emerging world of cryptocurrency, which I have become a speaker on this topic and serve as a moderator for the world’s largest Facebook page on crypto.

It’s true that this financial guy also envisioned, developed, and launched a professional combat sport promotion in the U.S. and named it Valor Bare Knuckle, LLC where I served as the cofounder and CEO of Valor Bare Knuckle with my business partner, UFC Hall of Famer, Ken Shamrock. I designed and patented the unique and innovative fight platform “The Bout Circle” and later coordinated a successful exit in 2019.

Today, I am deep into quantitative investing using advanced algorithms for profitable systematic trading. This is just a fancy way of saying I use the skills programmers from around the world to help me develop sophisticated computer programs used to make money trading in the live markets. These proprietary inventions are used in several hedge funds today.

My firsts to market:

• First to market for online automotive sales in the early/mid 90s.
• Created the first B2B online mortgage home loan processing company.
• First to produce daily online stock trading videos starting in 2004 (before YouTube was created).
• One of the first promotions to enter the U.S. market for bare-knuckle combat sports entertainment.
• Designer of Valor Bare Knuckle fight platform “Bout Circle” and the VBK fighter attire (pants with no hand wraps).

des.woodruff(at)gmail.com