American quantitative hedge fund founded by David Shaw in 1988 — which uses computational methods to find market inefficiencies — and which was Jeff Bezos's employer before he left to found Amazon.
Built one of the earliest systematic quantitative trading operations — using computer models to identify and exploit statistical arbitrage opportunities — and served as the incubator that produced Jeff Bezos and other technology entrepreneurs from its unconventional culture of hiring scientists and engineers for finance.
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