Daniel Loeb and Third Point: Recruiting Criteria (?)

By Long Short Trader I was doing some background research on a completely unrelated matter, and ran into this famous Daniel Loeb email exchange (from 2005) with a London-based gentleman (At Third Point, like the financial markets in general,”one’s place in society” does not matter at all. We are a bunch of scrappy guys from diverse backgrounds (Jewish Muslim, Hindu etc) who enjoy outwitting pompous asses like yourself in financial markets globally): —–Original Message—– From: Alan Lewis Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:34 AM To: Daniel Loeb Subject: CV Daniel, Thanks for calling earlier today. Enclosed is my cv for your…