American quantitative hedge fund founded by David E. Shaw in 1988, known for hiring academic computer scientists and mathematicians to apply computational methods to financial markets.
Pioneered algorithmic and quantitative trading at scale — one of the first firms to systematically apply computer science to financial markets — and served as the training ground for Jeff Bezos and other consequential technology figures.
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