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Look at him, thats my Qual.
Your what?
My Qualitative! My vibe specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face.
I'll give you a hint, his name is Jayden. He won a local poetry competition in bushwick! Yeah I'm sure of the vibe.
Quant firms are hiring idea guys, not quants
I've been skeptical about the whole - software is commoditized, ideas are the moat argument
But I've seen first hand the best quant and technical firms in the world hire thinkers, liberal arts grads, and generalists
I predict the trend accelerates
Letter from @AQRCapital below
Astra feeling a lot like Sol but just a bit slower, tbh. Still have to babysit and give lots of feedback.
Exciting to see the frontier being pushed, but fundamentally still an autist that works really fast for me.
I rly hope future NFT projects learn from failures like this. So much capital, so much public exposure, total drop off of execution.
