Sublime

In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for

“We were looking for smarts and for people who had odd ideas. There was some experimental part to it.”7 Dennis, however, was clear about what he was looking for. He wanted people who had high math aptitude and high ACT (American College Testing) scores. He wanted people with some interest in computers or market methods. Those who worked to systemat

It took only a couple of weeks of working for Sam before Caroline Ellison called her mother and sobbed into the phone that she’d just made the biggest mistake of her life. She’d first met Sam at Jane Street, in the summer before her senior year at Stanford, after he’d been assigned to teach her class of interns how to trade. “I was kind of, like, t

By offering the experimental group the financial aid up front, the researchers managed to flip the traditional college application timeline:

The study found a 44-to-45-percent greater reduction in crime and arrests in BID areas compared to neighboring areas. BIDs are also associated with a significantly higher drop in police arrests: about ten fewer arrests per year in a neighborhood, or a 32-percent yearly decline. In our examination of actual BID private security expenditures, the evi