Cambridge

“Back in October of 2024, there was a group out of Cambridge and Princeton that used electron microscopes to scan the brain of the Drosophilia fruit fly, and they mapped every single neuron in that fruit flies brain. 139,000 neurons and every connection that th…”

“Cambridge is not that different to Stanford. You know, maybe a little bit smaller, maybe a bit less funded, but the quality of research that we're doing here is as good.”

“Before we opened the office, I ended up hiring a bunch of young dads who would show up at four a.m. In Cambridge. Because they wanted to get home at two p.m. To be with their kids, and we were like, let's validate that demand. So we were selling early in the m…”

“Even today in the UK, even with all the progress has been over the last decade in the ecosystem I would say the most aspirational job for a Cambridge computer science grad is to go work at Jane Street and be a trader.”

“No great entrepreneurs came out of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Went to McKinsey and that's where they made their first money.”

“Because I always think that actually exceptionalism shows itself early in life like that. And no one comes out of Cambridge and just makes money at Bain for the first time.”

“That's the kind of exceptionalism that we're looking for in some area of their life. And it might come out through the application, it might be the interview video, or the interview itself, but we're looking for that spark that they are not average, like they'…”

“And we see a lot of academics that we speak to in kind of Cambridge, Oxford, using supercomputer methods right now, unaware that actually a distributed systems approach might be more cost effective or even easier to think about from that perspective.”

“At the firm I worked for, there were three Cambridge PhDs who would send me a spreadsheet saying it would be impossible to lose more than five percent of our portfolio.”

“If you're at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, you stay in school, you finish, but I want you to not go after a four point O be okay with getting a 2.8 for the first time in your life.”