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The Man Who Solved the Market

Written by: Gregory Zuckerman
Narrated by: Will Damron
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Shortlisted for Theft and Mckinsey business book of the year award 2019

The first and fascinating look into the mind of Jim Simons, the shy billionaire who revolutionised Wall Street.

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and Ray Dalio. Yet Simons and his strategies are shrouded in mystery. The financial industry has long craved a look inside Simons's secretive hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman delivers the goods.

After a legendary career as a mathematician and a stint breaking Soviet codes, Simons set out to conquer financial markets with a radical approach. Simons hired physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists - most of whom knew little about finance - to amass piles of data and build algorithms hunting for the deeply hidden patterns in global markets. Experts scoffed, but Simons and his colleagues became some of the richest in the world, their strategy of creating mathematical models and crunching data embraced by almost every industry today.

As Renaissance became a major player in the financial world, its executives began exerting influence on other areas. Simons became a major force in scientific research, education and Democratic politics, funding Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign. While senior executive Robert Mercer is more responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency - he placed Steve Bannon in the campaign, funded Trump's victorious 2016 effort and backed alt-right publication Breitbart. Mercer also impacted the success of the Brexit campaign as he made significant investments in Cambridge Anatlytica. For all his prescience, Simons failed to anticipate how Mercer's activity would impact his firm and the world.

In this fast-paced narrative, Zuckerman examines how Simons launched a quantitative revolution on Wall Street and reveals the impact that Simons, the quiet billionaire king of the quants, has had on worlds well beyond finance.

©2019 Gregory Zuckerman (P)2019 Penguin Audio
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"Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho." (Bloomberg)

"A compelling read." (Economist)

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Mind Blowing story of Perseverance

Most most gripping story of perseverance, conviction and grit ever told. It's amazing to preserve with an untried breakthrough idea for three decades against various odds. Hats off to Jim Simons

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interesting presentation

I am interested in the domain and it is great to hear one of the great business suceess stories in hiatory of man knind

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research on subject

The subject has been thoroughly researched and effort to gain insight however style becomes monotonous at times

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An insight into the development of one Quant firm

You won't become a Quant but you definitely will enjoy listening to how one man with an ambition to apply mathematics to the chaotic World of finance succeeded with a bunch of very smart and intelligent people. Some information is repeated. But that helps.
The narration is very smooth.

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exceptional book about an exceptional man

loved the writing and narration. Any wannabe investor/trader must read the life the person who beat Wall Street over and over.

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Recommend this book for someone who is interested

Recommend this book for someone who is interested in Quant trading and trading in general

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Great.

Awesome voice quality with great expressions. Also great experience. finished faster than would have normally finished reading a book.

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Interesting

Liked the book. This is a story of several men, not one man. . .

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no formula, good bbok

loved phenomenal success story Jim simmons life stories his high & low of his life

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Great insight into the history of Renaissance

This is my first book through Audible and its a great way to read books during travel. I've managed to complete this book in less than 10 days while driving. I think I have found a way to read 2-3 books a month.

Coming to the book, it has been a great introduction about the history of the firm. It has chronicled the entire journey of the firm. I wasn't expecting any trade strategies but even without them, I think this is a must read or listen!

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