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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jim Simons comes up
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 39:58 unnamed speaker So I love the corollary that you used, you know, you said Buffett's maybe call it worth ninety billion dollars, and Jim Simons at Renaissance is worth a lot, but a lot less.
Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- ▶ 34:30 Larry Siegel Jim Simons.
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Greg Zuckerman, a special writer at the Wall Street Journal and the author of five books, including his most recent, The Man Who Solved the Market, How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 Ted Seides Before we dive into your book on Jim Simons and Renaissance, I want to touch a little bit on the greatest trade ever.
- ▶ 13:45 Ted Seides Why don't we start with your perspective on Jim Simons and his path through his career? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Gregory Zuckerman First, basically, he starts trading, and he has a sense that there's some structure in the market, and it's probably just an instinct on his part. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:30 Gregory Zuckerman They were unique in that Jim had a sense that data would be important. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:22 Gregory Zuckerman It was Jim. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:52 Ted Seides And the first is something you'd mentioned earlier, which is when Simon started trying to raise outside money in the early nineties, this strategy just wasn't popular. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:54 Gregory Zuckerman And I have some, I think, funny scenes in the book where people didn't really care about Jim Simons smoking in their face. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Ted Seides So you mentioned like Jim giving the team six months to figure out equities or 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:02 Gregory Zuckerman It's the level of talent at Simons' place is just heads and tails by everyone else. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:20 Gregory Zuckerman You know, I don't mean to bring any bad luck to Renaissance and Jim Simons, but we'll see how they do going forward.
- ▶ 43:25 Ted Seides What kind of a leader is Jim? 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:00 Ted Seides So now that he's sort of stepped away from the firm and it still continues to go and crank on, what is the future of Renaissance look like? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:49 Ted Seides Spend it and do things that impact the world, as you mentioned Jim originally wanted to do. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:53 Ted Seides So the people there, the 330 people may have access to the code, but you have this guy who's an educator by heart, who's turned to crack the code on the market. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:53 Gregory Zuckerman So yeah, we talked about his early life and his family, and I get into it, and I wanted to kind of get the impact of his parents and life lessons, and Simons 7 times in the scene