Axcom, every mention
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- ▶ 51:45 David Rosenthal You can start your own firm, which they do.
- ▶ 51:48 David Rosenthal It's called Axcom, A-X-C-O-M, and we'll contract with Axcom to run what's left of the trading operations here for Rentech.
- ▶ 51:59 Ben Gilbert So it's this interesting arm's length thing where Jim strikes a deal where he's gonna own a part of Axcom in exchange for
- ▶ 52:18 Ben Gilbert It's Axcom.
- ▶ 52:19 David Rosenthal It's another company that is now doing the quantitative trading.
- ▶ 52:27 Ben Gilbert And importantly, I don't think anyone had any idea what Axcom would become or how unbelievably
- ▶ 55:36 David Rosenthal In these kind of mid-eighties years, Axe Com is generating
- ▶ 57:43 David Rosenthal So, when Howard spins out the venture activities, Jim then decides to set up a new fund as a joint venture between Rentech and Axcom.
- ▶ 58:24 Ben Gilbert It is born out of this observation that, oh my god, what they're doing over there at Axcom is really interesting.