- Jane Street
- Citadel Securities
- HRT
- Two Siggy
- Quadrature
- Goldman Socks
- Millennium
The very best people are currently sharpening their swords on a distant shore awaiting the fall of civilization
There are no distant shores now. It is all one homogeneous continuum of debt and supermarkets
The “smartest” people i met in finance worked (or were aiming to work) at places like Jane Street but generally the most well-rounded individuals gravitate to the top of fields like IB, PE, Law, Consulting;
Jane Street’s likeability floor is a lot higher than a place like GS, but its ceiling is also comparably lower i think
I mostly agree with this actually. I could imagine a lot of MDs as Prime Ministers or Presidents, but I’ve never ever met a quant who should be anything but a public sector accountant at best
Your average private equity partner should be a warlord on the Eurasian steppe. Alcibiades in modern form was wasted on “Carlyle”
Jane Street PR is crazy…
Poor old Millennium
Two Siggy, Two Furious
Fast and the Furious Citadel Drift