American computer scientist who founded D.E. Shaw — one of the first and most successful quantitative hedge funds — and who stepped back from finance to focus on computational biology research, having hired Jeff Bezos who left to found Amazon.
Built one of the first systematic quantitative hedge funds — D.E. Shaw's statistical arbitrage approach was among the first to use computers to find and exploit market inefficiencies — and created the training ground that produced Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and numerous other technology entrepreneurs.
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