How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia

Re:How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia by auntienomen on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @05:28PM (#10707239)

Number of billionaires is a pretty strange metric. Thanks, Forbes.

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Re:How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia by Brig303 on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @06:06PM (#10707497)

+1. Then HBS or McKinsey should be in the lead here when compared to any other organization. Point is that PayPal mafia planted the seeds of the the social media revolution; unsure if DE Shaw is even a close second on impact.

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Re:How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia by xadhominemx on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @09:53PM (#10708557)

You think so? I count 4 or 5 billionaire McL alumni -- Louis Gerstner (probably), Michael Pearson (for now), Sheryl Sandberg, George Gillett Jr., Silvio Scaglia. Maybe more on an absolute basis, but it's out of 10,000's of alumni.

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Re:How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia by storgendibal on Thursday December 10, 2015 @02:11AM (#10709313)

Yeah exactly. McKinsey burns through 100-200 associates a year in the US alone.

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Re:How D.E. Shaw's Wall Street Geeks Overtook the Paypal Mafia by auntienomen on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @09:40PM (#10708513)

Depends on what you think Amazon's impact is, I guess, and how much of that you're willing to credit to DE Shaw.

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