Brett Harrison: belief

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…I clearly got in the wrong business with podcast. Why did you pursue finance dev instead of trading? Why did that appeal more to you? Yeah, so in college I studied computer science in math and I really liked programming, but I think I didn't quite know what a career in programming looked like. I think the conventional wisdom, at least in 2009 when we applying for internships, was like, okay, I'm going to sit in the cubicle and stare at a screen for 16 hours a day. I'm going to be miserable and it's not going to be a very social job. I consider myself like, a pretty social person. And I had a lot of friends who had had these various internships and quantitative finance, mostly from the trading side. And so when eventually I went to Jane Street as an intern, I had kind of like a hybrid summer, like, doing some dev stuff and some trading stuff. And to me I thought, like, okay, the traders are much more, much closer to, like, the real action of the company and like, I want to be a part of that. And so when I joined Jane Street, I was hired as a trader on the ADR desk. And I realized very soon into that that one, no, actually the developers have just as much, if not more impact on the outcome of success of the company. And two, I just like, enjoyed it a lot more and it was just much more up my alley and my training, and so I ended up going that route instead. I want to ask about the culture at these sorts of places like Acidadelle or Jane Street. I mean, you spend some time in Silicon Valley and around like, traditional sort of like, startup scene as well. What is the main difference between Silicon Valley tech culture versus New York culture?…

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