ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Gregory Zuckerman, the author of "The Frackers," "The Greatest Trade Ever," and his most recent book that's coming out soon, "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution." In this part, Gregory discusses the Peter Brown and Robert Mercer tandem, how Jim SImons managed and organized the tremendous brains working with him, Simons hiring the coding talent, putting money on trades without understanding why the phenomenon is happening, and why Simons found it difficult to accept some black box models in the early days.
Gregory Zuckerman: How Jim Simons Cracked The Secret Of The Market
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