Ken Griffin

“He's building, I think, what's going to be the most expensive house in history in Palm Beach.”

“Last year he had over a 100,000 people apply to work for him.”

“They all have in common that they invest in technology, the savings compound, and it could be gives you an advantage over slower moving competitors, and it could be a, the difference between a profit and a loss, and if you go back and look at Rockefeller, Carn…”

“The one thing I heard was that he convinced Harvard to let him install like a satellite dish so he could get real up to the minute data. He was the only person at Harvard that had this data flow.”

“It's the book that it was like, it's on your desk when you joined the firm, like he requires everyone to read it.”

“This idea of like buttering up, you know, the gatekeepers inside of a business, like that David Geffen's biography, he talks about, he had a huge advantage doing that. Michael Ovitz, I just did two episodes on Michael Ovitz, same situation. Like they're always…”

“On the on the quant team stole code for, they call them alphas, basically code that no matter who runs it, they're gonna generate return. Stole a bunch of stuff on like a hard drive. Citadel finds out, realizes that they're stealing the IP, the code. The guy f…”

“And in the talk that I used for the basis of the episode, because there's no biography written on Ken, he goes, And since then we've made about thirty billion dollars trading commodities.”

“He built this thing called a risk wall in Citadel. It's 30 feet by 10 feet. It's a giant screen. And he says before they were getting like a B, B plus on how well they were managing risk. And, you know, Ken's not gonna be satisfied with B anything. And so he a…”

“The day it blows up, and keep in mind, in this story, Ken Griffin's, like, 33. He's, like, really, really young. And he immediately charters a Gulfstream jet, goes to Houston, and interviews every single person that was important in the Enron trading business.…”

“Sotheby's is to auction a sixty-seven million year old Tyrannosaurus Rex two years after it sold a stegosaurus fossil to hedge fund owner Ken Griffin for 44.6 million.”

“The prime brokers, the Goldman's and Bank of America's, they do so much business with Citadel, and they've done this before where they know who to go to, just the same way the US government went to Warren Buffett when they wanted to shore up Goldman. They know…”

“Prime brokers reportedly rushed to raise cash to meet margin requirements while Ken Griffin's Citadel, my former employer reached a deal to purchase the funds publicly traded assets.”