# #542 - VO - Yoni Assia - eToro - “AI Will Replace Most Traders in 18 Months”

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Podcast: [Génération Do It Yourself](https://stenobird.com/podcast/g-n-ration-do-it-yourself-1043009)
Published: 2026-05-17T02:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.audiomeans.fr/file/nTLjBrCvPC/87ae65cd-425d-474f-8b06-8ba53e8fc6a6.mp3?_=1778833216
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Retrouvez l'épisode en version française ici : https://www.gdiy.fr/podcast/yoni-assia-vf/ On January 28th 2026, he launched his first AI agent. By April, Yoni Assia had 30 active agents running 24/7 on WhatsApp, 45 GitHub projects, and a dev team that couldn't review prototypes faster than non-developers were shipping them. In addition, Yoni runs eToro, a 1,500-person company he co-founded in 2007 with his brother and a friend. The mission hasn't changed since day one: democratize access to financial markets. It runs in the family. His grandfather opened a Swiss bank and his father built Magic Software, one of the first low-code development platforms. Obsessed with financial markets since he was 13, Yoni started trading early. He lost 90% of his portfolio in the dot-com crash, and came back obsessed with building the infrastructure that would make finance work differently. His first company put video cameras on roller coasters. It was sold to Kodak. Then came eToro. In 2012, he wrote one of the first papers on tokenizing real-world assets using Bitcoin. He posted it on BitcoinTalk and a teenager named Vitalik Buterin answered. Yoni paid him to co-write the paper, brought him to the eToro offices, and watched him leave to build Ethereum. Today, eToro manages $20 billion in assets across 50 million registered users, generating $870 million in revenue and $320 million in profit. Then came January 28th. Yoni launched his first OpenClaw agent. He hasen't slept properly since. He dreams about them, wakes up at 3am, opens WhatsApp, and finds his agents have been talking to each other all night, building, testing, shipping without him. In this episode, Yoni shares everything he's learned from building eToro to the last months, running a company with AI agents at its core: - Wh…

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