Jim Simons didn't want finance majors at Ren Tech. He believed they brought bias, not breakthroughs.

Instead, he built his team with PhD’s in physics, math, and computer science.

Simons was a mathematician, former codebreaker, and founder of Renaissance Technologies, the most successful hedge fund in history.

The edge was not market intuition.
It was models, data, and people trained to question assumptions rather than follow them.

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