The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Jim Simons reads as The Disruptor because he placed bold, unconventional bets in every domain he entered and was almost always early. He moved from pure mathematics into cryptography, then into quantitative finance while markets still ran on human intuition.
“On today and then focus on the next thing. Just keep going forward. Do not let your mind beat you. All right, so it says, this is the very next page and gives you a description of like what he's trying to do. He's teaching, he's doing all this stuff, but he's also has multiple jobs because he still has this desire to be rich.”
“Capable of digesting uncertain jumbles of information and generating reliable guesses And to further explain that point, Simmons does a great job of taking extremely complex things. And then he's a teacher at heart. That's what he did for not most of his life, maybe two decades of his life.”
“Now, you can imagine with somebody with that kind of personality that's not happy with $200 million a year in profits, you can imagine what kind of environment do you think that that person's creating at their company? Well, here's a description of that environment.”
“So he comes up, you got to start somewhere, right? So, this is his first idea for a trading style. And what's so remarkable about the story is like he comes up with a lot of good ideas. They work for a good amount of time. He'll make a good amount of money and then they break. And that's where he's like, oh, crap, I have this problem.”
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