Jan 6, 2020
Gregory Zuckerman is a special
writer at the Wall Street Journal and the author of five
books, including his most recent, The Man Who Solved the
Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.
Greg joined the Journal in 1996 and writes about big
financial trades, firms, and personalities. He’s a three-time
winner of the Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business
journalism, and his work has included breaking the stories of the
discord between Bill Gross and PIMCO, the London Whale trade,
subprime mortgage collapse, and meltdown of hedge fund Amaranth in
2007.
Our conversation starts with Greg’s path to journalism, touches on
the aftermath of his book The Greatest Trade Ever about
John Paulson and the subprime meltdown. We then turn to his recent
tome on Jim Simons and Renaissance, including the formation and
evolution of the Medallion fund, precarious moments in its history,
the human element of a quant shop, differences between Renaissance
and other quant competitors, leadership, impacting the world with
vast wealth, and why Renaissance has been so
special.
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