quantitative hedge funds

“So it's interesting because when you move from quantitative to fundamental, the amount of data that's relevant is, you know, Enormous on the fundamental side, because you're really diving into these single names.”

“We may not need the smartest PhD within a fundamental shop because we have to be able to explain and understand what they're doing and really talk their language whereas a quantitative hedge fund, there's more opportunity to maybe work on your own and not have…”

“Yeah, I mean, I think obviously at the beginning it was definitely all quantitative hedge funds that were consuming as much data as possible. I think now if you go to some of these conferences like Battlefin, where you can have hundreds of data meetings in one…”

“If you're going to sell to a quantitative hedge fund, anything less than two years of daily data that's really been stored point in time that you can really back test is really going to be tough to make that ten million dollar sale.”

“Sure, so I think kind of a revolution in the hedge fund industry mainly because you have the quantitative hedge funds that have really been leaders in technology and data, and now you have the fundamentals really over the last, call it two, three years, thinki…”