
Ben Gilbert
Acquired
Renaissance Technologies
- Published
- March 18, 2024
- Duration
- 3h 8m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Apr 17, 2026
Discusses business, investing, technology.
Summary
Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scientists who’ve discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved into the g…
Show notes
Renaissance Technologies is the best performing investment firm of all time. And yet no one at RenTec would consider themselves an “investor”, at least in any traditional sense of the word. It’d rather be more accurate to call them scientists — scientists who’ve discovered a system of math, computers and artificial intelligence that has evolved into the greatest money making machine the world has ever seen. And boy does it work: RenTec’s alchemic colossus has posted annual returns in the firm’s
Themes
- business
- investing
- technology