ALOIS GRABER

ABOUT

This is just one big page where I can write all about myself, without feeling the need for it to be useful.

And some day this site will be all that's left of me, so I might as well write my own mini autobiography.

TIME LINE FOR CONTEXT:

• 2004: born in Fribourg, Switzerland
• 2006: started skiing
• 2010: started playing ice hockey, soccer and dancing ballet
• 2012: started playing tennis
• 2016: played the ice hockey school trophy for the 6th time in a row and became vice swiss champion
• 2019: rough year, moved to the Ojai, California, started listening to Warren Buffett
• 2020: played tennis all day during covid, moved back to Fribourg, Switzerland
• 2022: Started investing with an arbitrage and then Alibaba at 100$, Meta at 180$
• 2023: decided to quit tennis
• 2024: started University of Fribourg in economics
• 2025: joined and relaunched BSU, student trading contest
• 2025: Started PlatyPay
• 2025: Invested 1/3 of my net worth in SeaStar Medical at 3.8$ per share (14200 shares as of march 2026)

ABOUT ME:

MY LIFE PHILOSOPHY

I've always questioned everything and everyone. But one day I realized I didn't need to. I could live the way I wanted to. Actually I still question everything :)

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. (Aeschylus)

I learned not to take the outcome personally. There is no such thing as success or failure. There just are a bunch of moments which follow each other. While I don't take the outcome personally, I care about the outcome a lot.

Here is a question that matters to me: What do you want?

I don't have an ego. This allows me to make some stupid decisions for me personally (like starting platypay, which takes significant legal risk because I consider the problem a worthwhile problem to be solved for the world)

I don't care (at least when I'm not in love (which I haven't been for most of my life except for 3 months when I went on 1 date with my 10/10)). I like to play games. I'm good with spending my days alone. I don't like to spend my days with other humans. To me the human experiment is one big game. I try to maximize total longterm wealth for everyone.

I try to have rock bottom expectations for me and everyone and everything around me. I don't expect anything to work out. I believe things are going to work out but I don't expect them to.

I love to talk 1 on 1 with humans. I try to keep it to under 90 minutes. I would be drained if I were to do more than that.

MORE ABOUT ME:

• I love to relax. Whether I'm in a jacuzzi, sauna or watching the sunset. With humans and without humans. Talking or not talking. I chill :)
• New ideas. I'm unimpressed by emotion, because emotions are not impressive. I've heard all the regular wailing with the same-old palette of sounds and words. I have to be hit with a new idea, a new angle, to be interested.
• I think very long-term and future-focused. One of my favorite questions is: What would I do today if it was my last day on the planet? This might sound short-term focued but I believe that by treating everyday as my last, when I'll be 80, I'll have done everything I wanted to do on this planet.
• You can't pin me down and say this is Aloïs.Spotify said: "your music taste is not definable". I change, adapt and grow my behavior as I go. I don't old onto opgnions tightly. If I get a logical explation that goes against what I though, I switch sides or take both sides.
• I love to meditate.I love to sit down and just be. Reconnecting for 20 minutes in the morning and then all day long.
• I am easily distractable. I don't need much stimulation for my mind to be fully turned on. When I needed to focus in the past I turned everything off until 9pm except "productive" stuff and eating, sports and talking to humans and journaling and using the restroom.