Wasn’t Emad working at a hedge fund before this? I’m surprised the article glosses over the fact that he had 0 experience in the tech industry before starting one of the most ambitious tech projects ever
Getting a job at a hedge fund is not particularly noteworthy. Being really good at it, however, is rare and those people don’t simply leave, as you’re earning the equivalent of a successful startup exit every year.
Someone leaving a hedge fund while still early in their career is a strong negative signal. e.g. SBF and Caroline both from Jane Street.
I started as a hedge fund manager at 23 doing global macro at Pictet & quit when my son was diagnosed with autism to build an NLP team to analyse clinical trial & other data and undertook pathway analysis of neurotransmitters focusing on GABA/Glutamate balance to repurpose medicine to help him filter, after which he went to mainstream school.
One of the things I am focused on now is bringing that research with the new medical LMs so for autism, cancer, MS, Alzheimer’s & more everyone has comprehensive, authoritative and up to date knowledge at their fingertips on these and also a guide so they never feel alone and helps them on their journey if they or a loved one gets this diagnosis.
It will be open and transparent, took a while to build to here but looking forward to next steps.
Yeah, I'm probably thinking of the perceived motives of some outspoken capitalists (Note that I would call myself a hippy capitalist). And amoral is probably a better word than immoral. I only have near experience with one hedge fund manager - not so common in New Zealand. So my own biases are coloured by the mediums I learn from.
The big companies here and more promised me tech to build the system and didn't deliver which is why I did Stability to make sure there were open alternatives.
Still achieving the output we did based on completely diverse global team form mostly untraditional backgrounds outside SF & the resources we had is a positive not negative story.
The first 20 employees I hired were graduates from the job centre in Ilford and we built this above a chicken shop.
The cliché is CEO positions select for soiciopathy.
Different games seem to select for certain types of antisocial thinking.
Is there a pattern to the type of person (a) selected by hedge funds, (b) successful at hedge funds?
I don't believe we should stereotyping individuals based on their group categories. Neither do I think that we can apply psych labels to groups.
But we don't seem to have better ways to question the issue...