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  • By: Gregory Zuckerman
  • Narrated by: Will Damron
  • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (680 ratings)
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for Theft and Mckinsey business book of the year award 2019

The first and fascinating look into the mind of Jim Simons, the shy billionaire who revolutionised Wall Street.

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.

After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance - to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today.

As Renaissance became a major player in the financial world, its executives began exerting influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific research, education and Democratic politics, funding Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency - he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign, funded Trump's victorious 2016 effort and backed alt-right publication Breitbart. Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his prescience, Simons failed to anticipate how Mercer's activity would impact his firm and the world.

In this fast-paced narrative, Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond finance.

©2019 Gregory Zuckerman (P)2019 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho." (Bloomberg)

"A compelling read." (Economist

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Interesting man and colleagues, but boring book

A lot of drawn out fluff in this book. I was on the edge of being fascinated the whole time, due to the people and the stories involved, but there was never really much to sink my teeth into. Too much filler, perhaps.

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Not enough insights into Renaissance

The author starts the book by saying how secretive Renaissance is and that not many people were willing to speak to him. This is apparent in the book: 85% is about the people who are/have been part of the organisation. The backstory of these people is relevant, but starts to bore after a while. The really interesting gems of how Renaissance works are left uncovered, so that the reader is left without much new knowledge of how this secretive quant hedge fund operates and makes money.

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Insightful and engaging

I enjoy books on this and similar topics, and am aware of the risk that a lot of them will go over my head or the subject matter is too dry/specific for the keen amateur. This didn’t do any of that, it was interesting, engaging and thought provoking. I completed the whole book in a couple of sittings, which is unusual for me. Hope you enjoy it too.

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Very entertaining

Very entertaining but lacks technical details for the savy reader looking for insight into Renaissance actual trading.

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Insightful

Fantastic narration enhances a rigorous examination of the Jim Simons/Renaissance story. Interesting digression into the political activities of Simons, Mercer et al. Highly recommended.

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everything

the best book on the market to understand what it means to be a quant.

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Really interesting and well done

Had no idea about quant trading. This book is an awesome story that brings you into it with some technical detail but lots of human elements which are interesting.

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Awesome

Awesome story, everyone should read or listen this so that they would understand how much these people have impacted our lifes and the amount of work they have done to become so wealthy.

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Interesting Story But Too Much Political Fluff

I have been meaning to listen to this book for a long time now. Whilst it is fascinating regarding the building and success of Renaissance Technologies with the trial and error of their algorithmic trading strategies, I do not like the author obviously imparting his political views on the later stages of the book and this is very clear through his terminology. For example Robert Mercer took up more of the book than it should have. It seemed obvious to me near the end he had this obsession gravitating back towards Mercer's opinions and confrontations with other Renaissance employees (what does this have to do with trading?!). A little would have been ok but I think it added a lot of bloat to the book that didn't need to be there.

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Left wing bias displayed throughout

What you'd expect from a Guardian journalist, I suppose, but don't listen to this if left-wing re-imaginings of history make your blood boil.

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