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In 2000, a midwestern futures broker turned Wall-Street executive launched a radically new way to trade corporate bonds.
Today his new way of trading has created an $18 billion company and has become the accepted future of bond markets.
This is the story of Richard McVey 
McVey was born in 1960 in Ohio. After college, he worked as a futures broker before breaking into Wall Street after taking a job within JP Morgan's futures division. McVey worked his way up through JP Morgan to become head of North American fixed income sales in 1996.pic.twitter.com/R8hUMc0nUN
In the 90's, corporate bonds traded entirely through dealers via phone calls and faxes. While at the bank, McVey saw an opportunity to digitize the market by allowing investors to trade with each other instead of solely with the dealers.
McVey took his idea to JP Morgan's internal incubator program, called LabMorgan, and won funding to start an electronic bond trading platform. He called it MarketAxess, and launched in 2000 with JPM and Bear Stearns as major backers.pic.twitter.com/M9grkkDuDV
The early days of MarketAxess came with challenges. McVey had to slowly build liquidity on his platform by leveraging old bank relationships. He also had to weather credit shocks like the 9/11 terrorist attacks and, later, the 2008 financial crisis.
Today, MarketAxess is the dominant electronic platform for corporate bonds, with over 20% market share. McVey's bet on electronic trading paid off in spades - his company is worth $18 billion and was the 3rd best performing stock of the 2010s:pic.twitter.com/3RE4CpPT9C
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