How the 2020 Inc. 5000 Companies Were Selected Companies on the 2020 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2016. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent--not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies--as of December 31, 2019. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2016 is $100,000; the minimum for 2019 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to three decimal places. There were four ties on this year's Inc. 5000.
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Trade-Ideas
Operates an artificial intelligence-based platform for traders and investors
Trade Ideas delivers daily trading strategies in individual stocks via its virtual artificial intelligence analyst, HOLLY. Every evening HOLLY conducts a ‘Quantitative Combine’ that performs over a million simulated trades against 35 different concepts. Each concept has a different purpose designed to help beat the market. The AI looks at everything to identify trading probabilities. Using this, every morning before the open, HOLLY produces 5-8 of the strategies graded against proprietary criteria that contain the greatest, statistically tested probability of identifying successful opportunities in the market. This information advantage saves novices and veterans hours of research and testing.
WHY WE THINK WE'RE A GREAT PLACE TO WORK
We offer a decentralized workplace in which most employees work from home. All employees are given wide latitude to fit in the necessities of life. If an employee needs to get something done for herself or her family, her fellow employees happily pick up the slack, and the employee is trusted to pick up her end whenever time allows.