Renaissance Technologies

320.267 - 348.567 David Rosenthal

Ah, well, we start in 1938 in Newton, Massachusetts, which is a fairly wealthy suburb just outside of Boston, where one James Simons is born. And both of Jim's parents were very, very smart, especially his mother, Marsha. His dad was a salesman for 20th Century Fox, the movie company. His job was he went around to theaters in the Northeast and sold packages of movies to them. Super cool.