Jim Simons - no investment experience prior to RenTec, math does not count as experience sorry. Seems to have spent time working on “differential geometry” and running a math department at Stony Brook? 2/7
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Is anyone else a little sketched out by the backgrounds on some of the Renaissance Technologies analysts? As someone that works in the asset mgmt industry, you typically see people with real investing experience on their resume. I'll start with the top and work my way down. 1/7
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Elwyn Berlekamp - looks like his only experience prior to RenTec is in computer science, inventing “error correcting codes” smh my codes simply would not have any errors. 3/7
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Robert Mercer - at least he had some real (non-academic) experience before joining, but it was at IBM? Not a good sign tbh, fairly sure this is not useful for a career in asset management. 4/7
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Peter Brown - another one from IBM, where do they keep hiring from this loser boomer company? 5/7
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James Ax - a child. Only experience is in “Diophantine equations” which is worrying, not even capable of handling non-integer solutions to equations? 6/7
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I’d go further but I’m getting bored and more worried by the minute. What is going on here??? 7/7
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1.)Encouraged by Medallion's success, Simons by the mid-'90s was looking for more researchers. A résumé with Wall Street experience or even a finance background was a firm pass.
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2.) "We hire people who have done good science," Simons once said. The next surge of talent came from a team of mathematicians at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, who were wrestling with speech recognition and machine translation.
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