Renaissance Technologies

2962.65 - 2991.53 David Rosenthal

And in fact, a couple of years after they get started, the currency trading side of the firm almost blows up when Lenny goes super long on government bonds and the market goes against him and the whole portfolio drops 40%, which is wild. That ends up triggering a clause in Lenny's agreement with Jim, and they sell off Lenny's entire portfolio, and he leaves the firm. This is crazy.