Friends and former colleagues. The podcast came out of their phone calls: comics, movies, technology, politics, and markets. The name is the bat who rode a shuttle into space. The comic is that origin, still being drawn.
Host · Long Island, New York
Goldman Sachs
John is Dan’s longtime friend and former colleague, on Long Island. LinkedIn lists him at Goldman Sachs — the Street years that overlap Dan’s, and the other half of a diner-booth argument about comics, movies, tech, politics, and markets.
Co-host
SpaceBat · 2026 – Present
Comics, movies, tech, politics, markets.
Goldman Sachs
Host · Colts Neck, New Jersey
COO, AMYNA Systems Inc.
Dad. Husband. Eagle Scout. A computer-science kid who found the trading floor, then kept finding new rooms. Dan co-founded the program trading desk at Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, spent sixteen years at Goldman Sachs as vice president then managing director in equities algorithmic trading, and left the Street to make things you can taste and hold — Garden State Distillery, a pork-roll shop, then cybersecurity. At the distillery he ran back office, sales, and operations. Out of that plant he built WhiskeyOS, the operating system for craft distilleries: one calm record from grain to glass — production, inventory, federal and local excise, and the sales book. Built by a distiller, for distillers, starting in New Jersey. He served as executive director at Project Veritas: the search for truth, on the record. He is COO of AMYNA Systems. On X he writes as @danielrstrack: tech geek, wine, No Agenda, Jets, Devils.
Chief Operating Officer
AMYNA Systems Inc. · Feb 2024 – Present
IoT and OT cybersecurity. Embedded protection at the network edge.
Founder
WhiskeyOS · 2026 – Present
The operating system for craft distilleries. Production, inventory, federal and local excise tax, CRM, and marketing — one record from grain to glass. The still stays analog. The books do not.
Co-host
SpaceBat · 2026 – Present
Comics, movies, tech, politics, markets.
Managing Partner
Garden State Distillery · 2018 – Present
Business partner. Back office, sales, and operations — the stillhouse work WhiskeyOS is built from.
Managing Partner
Johnny's Pork Roll and Coffee Too! · 2017 – Present
Chairman, Advisory Board
RewardJet · 2017 – Present
Executive Director
Project Veritas · 2022 – 2023
The search for truth. Undercover journalism, primary sources, institutions on the record.
Chief Operating Officer
OneTeam Financial · 2019 – 2021
Managing Partner
ClearSafe Labs · 2018 – 2021
Hemp-CBD products.
Chief Strategy Officer
Vandham Securities · 2017 – 2018
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs · 2013 – 2016
Equities algorithmic trading. Business and technical teams, specialized desks, client coverage.
Vice President
Goldman Sachs · 2002 – 2013
Grew the equities algorithmic trading franchise after the SLK acquisition.
Sales Trader · Co-founder, Program Trading
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg · 1996 – 2002
Co-founded and ran the program trading desk. $80 million in revenue in 2000 — the year Goldman bought the firm.
Software Development Intern
Troster Singer · 1993 – 1995
Boy Scouts of America
Eagle Scout
Loyola University Maryland
B.S. Computer Science · 1991 – 1995
Assumption University
Computer Science · 1994 – 1995
The phone calls, recorded: comics, movies, technology, politics, and markets. Named for a bat who went to space and, in the comic, came back a hero. Episodes post when they publish.
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