Cracking the Code on Wall Street

Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 9:02 a.m.

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Have you ever wanted to be rich? Really rich? Gregory Zuckerman, a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and author of \\u201cThe Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution,\\u201d shares the story of the mathematicians who cracked Wall Street\\u2019s code. Starting from humble beginnings in a strip mall on Long Island, NY, the hedge fund company that Simons started (where about 300 people work today) now pulls in more money in a year than companies like Hasbro and Hyatt Hotels, which have tens of thousands of employees.

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