The Ledger
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Laffont: Active public stock picking has been a terrible business
“Being an active investor in the public market over 20 years has been a really bad business. We are fighting the machines, first of all, right? So Ken Griffin, Citadel, Renaissance, you know, all of these, you know, quants and algorithms, and that's number one.…”
Chamath: Citadel runs $1T in daily exposure on $50B capital
“So I think that Citadel with the fifty billion of capital that investors have given them is probably running a trillion dollars on a daily basis in the markets.”
Calacanis: Ken Griffin pressured Harvard to support Israel after $500M in donations
“Citadel's Ken Griffin, who's donated more than a half a billion dollars to Harvard, placed a call last week to the head of Harvard and asked the university to come out in support of Israel.”
Sacks: Citadel bailed out Melvin Capital and Citron Research
“Citadel went in and bailed out Melvin and Citron, and so they're on both sides of this trade.”
Friedberg: Gabe Plotkin borrowed $2.75B from Citadel and Point72 during GameStop rally
“He had to borrow 2.75 billion dollars from Citadel and .7 just to get through his month.”
Palihapitiya: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is the most sophisticated market participant
“Basically, there is no more sophisticated market participant than Ken Griffin.”