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David Rosenthal: belief

18 Mar 2024 Acquired Renaissance Technologies

“I think the culture of managing an academic environment in a fashion like a lab, but without letting it spin into the frivolity of a lab that Jim Simons set up.”

— David Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 Mar 2024
Publisher
Acquired

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…The one thing you can’t stop thinking about. What is the one thing for each of us personally from doing this work over the past month on RenTech that sticks with us? For me, perhaps this is obvious from my little diatribe on the tapestry. I just think this is such a powerful example of the power of incentives, getting them right, and setting them up right. And culture, too. I don’t want to shortchange that. I think the culture of managing an academic environment in a fashion like a lab, but without letting it spin into the frivolity of a lab that Jim Simons set up. In other words, early Google.…

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