Why I Went from a Hedge Fund to Selling Books
AFTER GRADUATING FROM Princeton, I went to New York City and ended up working at a quantitative hedge fund, D. E. Shaw and Co., run by David Shaw. There were only thirty people at the company when I started and about three hundred when I left. David is one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever met. I learned so much from him and used a lot of his ideas and principles on things like HR and recruiting and what kind of people to hire when I started Amazon.
In 1994 very, very few people had heard of the internet. It was used at that time mostly by scientists and physicists. We used it a little bit at D. E. Shaw for some things but not much, and I came across the fact that the web—the World Wide ...
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