Renaissance Technologies

7952.659 - 7977.099 Ben Gilbert

Yep. I think that's right. Okay, there's a few other parts of the story that we skipped along the way because there was no real good place to put them in. But these are objectively fascinating historical events that are totally worth knowing about. And the first one is called basket options. So the year is 2002. Rentech has 13 years of knowing that they basically have a machine that prints money.