February 6, 2018· 29 min
Why One Of The Most Successful Quant Funds Decided To Create Its Own Video Game
Orality
Model
73%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(856 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,155 words)
M:29%
GuestAlfred Spector(3,014 words)
M:26%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic44%
literally, completely, amazing
Engagement62%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
game (50x), about (46x), it's (45x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., So, Joe, I think we have to co..., So the gorilla is that last we...
Sound Patterns58%
32 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
if you will
Literate Indicators
Hedging12%
maybe, might, quite
Passive Voice8%
was ruined, be even, be contrived
Abstract Nouns26%
investment, recommendation, conversation
Subordination13%
since, because, however
Sentence Length41%
Avg: 15.3 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style38%
344 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, unfortunately
Description
Quantitative finance is red hot. These days, basically everyone (banks, hedge funds etc.) is hiring mathematicians and coders. So what differentiates one quant shop from any other? On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we speak to Alfred Spector, the CTO of Two Sigma Investments, which is one of the most successful quant firms in the world. Spector is a computer scientist who previously did long stints at both Google and IBM. He tells us about why Two Sigma spent resources to create its own video game, and what the firm does to ensure that technologists and mathematicians are eager to work there. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.