Billionaire James Simons: Conquering Wall Street with Mathematics
A speech and Q&A with billionaire and the second richest hedge fund manager in the world, James Simons. In this speech James talks about his life, career and the events that lead him to starting Renaissance Technologies. James also goes on to speak about why Renaissance technologies is so successful and his guiding principles for life. Like if you enjoyed Subscribe for more:http://bit.ly/InvestorsArchive Follow us on twitter:http://bit.ly/TwitterIA Other great Stock Market Investor videos:⬇ Ray Dalio on Hedge funds, Success and Life/Work: http://bit.ly/RDVid1 Charlie Munger on Common sense and Investing:http://bit.ly/CMVid1 Video Segments: 0:00 Introduction 4:25 Early Life 8:04 MIT 10:35 Road trip to South America 12:18 Berkley 13:18 First investments 18:20 Urge to do something different/ First business 20:26 Back to academia 26:09 Opposing the war/ Getting fired 30:45 Stony Brook University 36:26 Managing money 39:39 Becoming a trader 45:53 Renaissance technologies/ What makes it successful 49:40 Simons foundation 54:04 Mathematics as a refuge 55:40 Retirement 57:19 Guiding principles 1:00:45 Start of Q&A 1:01:12 When not to do something? 1:02:20 Thoughts on hedge fund industry today? 1:04:31 Why do you focus on collaborative goals? 1:06:30 How did your parents help foster your mathematical knowledge? 1:07:15 When you look back, would you change anything? 1:08:14 Do you think you should share your knowledge? 1:09:52 Thoughts on mathematics education? 1:17:55 Bourbaki movement? Interview Date: 30th October, 2014 Event: The American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Original Image Source:http://bit.ly/JSimmonsPic Investors Archive has videos of all the Investing/Business/Economic/Finance masters. Learn from their wisdom for free in one place. For more check out the channel. Remember to subscribe, share, comment and like! No advertising.
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