Steve Cohen

“The old SAC was a great example for many, many years SAC generated phenomenal returns on the capital, and yet, with somewhat, some great consistency, the people that spun out couldn't come anywhere near replicating it on its own, and back then, SAC was really …”

“The prop desk at Gruntel was three people. My boss, Ron Acer, a kid six months older than I am, who you may have heard of, Steve Cohen, and me. Gruntel, at the time, had capital of eight million dollars. We used a little more than two, and really the rest of t…”

“I still remember the very first time I met him, my first question to him was, I said, you have built a more enduring hedge fund than almost anyone else, right? I mean, there's five or six people like that. Why do you think that is? And he said, because I burne…”

“And who, by the way, is now like the richest owner in baseball by a factor of three”

“Baseball having just gotten through this huge ethical scandal. We've cleaned up the game. We've kicked Jeff Luno out for a year. We've kicked the manager out. We really care about ethics. And then they turn around and they rush through the approval process. A …”

“We invested in a company called Golden Auctions. Really legitimate investors, Steve Cohen, Peter Chernin, the Chernin Group, have all invested in. Our little way for us to elbow into the cap table was by saying, hey, we'll take out A TV concept on the business…”