Jim Simons
3 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 2, 2025 by Howard Morgan · said 13 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Sep 2, 2025 positive
Morgan: Jim Simons Refused to Hire Wall Street Talent at Renaissance
“So he never hired a Anyone who knew anything about the markets, because he was hiring mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, astrophysicists, people who understood time series, number series, big data. And he didn't want them to be colored by thinking they…”
Sep 2, 2025 positive
Morgan: Jim Simons Valued Novel Data Sources Over Superior Trading Algorithms
“And Jim once said to me, if somebody comes to me with a much better algorithm for trading, and another guy comes to me with a new source of data no one else has, I'm much more, I'd much rather pay for the data. You know, we'll figure out the algorithms.”
Sep 2, 2025 neutral
Morgan: Venture Capital Dominated Returns for Renaissance Technologies' First Five Years
“In the first seven years of Renaissance, which is now known as the premier quant trading fund around the world, but the first seven years, we also had about half the money in venture, and for the first five years, venture dominated the returns.”