Citadel

"I had great respect for Ken Griffin and great respect for the Citadel organization, but by that point I realized that the economics for me would be better if I did my own thing."

"Ken Griffin and Citadel bought his public book for a reported $16 billion. Ken has made out like a bandit, reportedly making about $3 billion on the back of it in a very short amount of time."

John Coogan

mentioned

"We traded a portion of our public portfolio in a block transaction to remove all leverage from the fund and prevent further losses. That was the sale of the public equity book to Citadel."

"Citadel's bid was better. Ken wants to be the guy that everyone goes to when they're in trouble. Citadel did this in the Amaranth deal. Virtually every blowup in finance, they come to the rescue."

"we've heard about you know big hedge funds Citadel is doing clearing"

Dan Shipper

mentioned

"Ken Griffin from Citadel is like you can tell he just had this moment where someone showed him an AI doing like an advanced data or finance question and he was like holy shit like that's what I would pay PhDs to do for me and it just did it."

"Someone introduces him to Ken Griffin. You know, Citadel's founder. While While he's at Harvard, you know, trading out of his dorm room, Ken asks, because Ed was not using his all his um algorithms and everything else, he'd retired, uh Ken asked i..."

"especially like the super like the Jane Streets of the world and the Citadels. They're they're really detailed on their data"

Chamath Palihapitiya

mentioned

"There are these incredible young vibrant projects that are basically replacing a Citadel, replacing a Millennium, and they're building these automated agent-based hedge funds."