Jim Simons
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Nov 5, 2026
Martin E. HellmanGUEST
So the chief person, the chairwoman of the board, is Barbara Simons, whose name you may recognize as a former president of ACM.
Martin E. HellmanGUEST
And her ex-husband, who recently passed away, Jim Simons, was one of the richest men in the world.
Martin E. HellmanGUEST
He was a mathematician who founded Renaissance Technologies.
Martin E. HellmanGUEST
So I won't go into details there, but that's...
Michael MartinHOST
you have to understand what environment you're looking at.
Michael MartinHOST
And if you don't believe me or why you think that's important, if you look up to someone like Jim Simons and Renaissance, rest his soul, they know what regime every instrument is in.
Michael MartinHOST
And they bet accordingly based on what that regime is in.
Michael MartinHOST
You know, based on what that regime is.
John HuberGUEST
And by the way, it's the same thing in portfolio management, you can earn a high return by holding a great business over the long run.
John HuberGUEST
which would be like high profit margin, or you can earn a high return on capital doing things like Jim Simons used to do, or you can turn over your portfolio very quickly.
John HuberGUEST
I don't know how he did it, or I'm not suggesting that's the right way to do it, but he earned a high return on capital with a very high turnover approach, earning very small profit margins.
John HuberGUEST
And he basically ran, his portfolio was like the Costco equivalent, right? He earned very high returns by very rapid, fast returns.
Stephon AlexanderGUEST
Oh, yes, yes.
Stephon AlexanderGUEST
Jim Simons, he's...
Stephon AlexanderGUEST
He's a geometer, so he came up with some important mathematics all about this topic.
Stephon AlexanderGUEST
He believes, he wants to put his bet that the universe actually is finite.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
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Stephon AlexanderGUEST
note.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And just for in case people don't know, Jim Simons made his billions trading in the stock market, bringing high level mathematics to his predictive models that no one knew was even possible at the time.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
And now he's put his money back to further research.
NigelHOST
I'm not sure.
NigelHOST
So most hedge fund managers, you know, you have your Ken Griffins, even like, even Jim Simons.
NigelHOST
Like, most of these guys hide.
NigelHOST
But Akward will go and post a long thread on Twitter.
EricHOST
The challenge for me comes down to whether or not you should fully trust a model.
EricHOST
If you follow the approach Jim Simons from Renaissance Capital had, you'll start out using a model with some human interaction and ultimately get to a model with no human interaction at all.
EricHOST
That would be the Holy Grail.
EricHOST
Unlikely, but more possible for the common man now than ever due to AI.
Ritankar DasGUEST
I was fortunate to have some great mentors over time.
Ritankar DasGUEST
Very early on, I got great advice from two people, a guy named Roy Vagelos and another person named Jim Simons, both very successful in a lot of different realms.
Ritankar DasGUEST
And both... very successful academic researchers and scientists who also found success in the business world.
Ritankar DasGUEST
So, you know, Roy had, was a professor at Wash U in St. Louis, and then, you know, had made great advances in medicine and chemistry.
Spencer McGowanHOST
And build labs.
Spencer McGowanHOST
The story of Jim Simons and Renaissance is one of the most incredible stories.
Alex TolienHOST
Yeah.
Spencer McGowanHOST
All right? And he was the original quantitative analyst, mathematician from Stony Brook.
Darius DaleHOST
It's almost impossible to do that.
Darius DaleHOST
I mean, you have to be basically Jim Simons at Renaissance Technologies.
Darius DaleHOST
But again, that is the value of attempting to and ultimately delivering on a positive skew return distribution.
Darius DaleHOST
But even if you did not generate a positive, if you knew your strategy was unable to generate a positive skew return distribution, just by avoiding bear markets, just by avoiding what they call volatility drag, please look that up after this, just by avoiding volatility drag, you wind up with either, you know, 50% more money or twice as much money.
Shane DevineGUEST
And the other major donor to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, the Mamdani PAC, besides these two up-loving employees, was Liz Simons, who is an heiress of a billionaire.
Michael WatsonHOST
The daughter of James Simons of...
Michael WatsonHOST
Now deceased of Renaissance Technologies.
Tiffany GabbayHOST
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