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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
18 Mar 2024 Acquired Renaissance Technologies
“I think the analogy here is like sports. There are all-star players, there are Hall of Famers, and then there are LeBron and MJ.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 18 Mar 2024
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Renaissance Technologies
Transcript context
…By the way, this is exactly the same thing as Jeff Bezos in college, realizing he wanted to be a theoretical physicist. He met some of the extreme brainpower people that would go on to become the best theoretical physicists in the world. He said, I’m smart, but I’m not that smart, so switched to computer science. I think the analogy here is like sports. There are all-star players, there are Hall of Famers, and then there are LeBron and MJ. Jim ends up being a Hall of Famer mathematician, but he’s not Tom Brady. He is got a pretty important theorem named after him.…
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