A Fund of His Own

in a month." "Yes." "That was not a list of encouragement." "It was a checklist." The first version of Ghostline Capital operated from a subleased office near Madison Square with four desks, two borrowed monitors, and a coffee machine that screamed before producing anything useful. Ethan contributed most of his savings. Priya joined two weeks later, taking a pay cut and calling it "career sabotage with optionality." A former Blackquarry trader named Jonah Reed came aboard after Marcus demoted him for questioning execution costs. They hired an operations chief, Lena Ortiz, who had spent fifteen years keeping larger funds from accidentally destroying themselves.