Jim Simons: Billionaire Mathematician Revolutionizing Finance

Jim Simons, a former NSA employee, revolutionized finance with Renaissance Technology, achieving a 39% net return, outperforming renowned funds.

### Jim Simons: The Billionaire Mathematician Who Revolutionized Investing with AI
* 🧠 Jim Simons, a former NSA codebreaker, founded Renaissance Technologies in 1982 at the age of 40 without a finance degree, using **AI for investing**, which was considered **groundbreaking** at the time.
* 💰 Despite losing **4% in its first year**, Renaissance's Medallion Fund has delivered a remarkable **39% net annualized return since 1988**, outperforming legendary investors like Warren Buffett and George Soros.
* 🔒 The Medallion Fund's AI-driven technology remains a **closely guarded secret**, with only current and former employees allowed to invest in it since 2005.
* 📈 Warren Buffett has famously recommended passive index investing, as most active investors fail to beat the market, but Simons' success demonstrates the **potential of active investing when done right**.
* Simons' background as a mathematician and his early adoption of AI for investing played a crucial role in his success, highlighting the **importance of math and technology** in today's world.
* 📱 Simons' story also emphasizes the **power of networking and being in the right environment**, as he was able to achieve his vision with the support of **like-minded individuals**.
* 🏆 To honor Simons' achievements and inspire Manet users, a contest has been launched with the opportunity to **meet Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson** and **receive a championship belt** at the Vault conference.

can I tell you guys a story about Jim Simons? Is that okay with you? Can you pull up Jim Simons, billionaire? Okay, this story ought to inspire all of you. Okay, so Jim Simons, who recently died earlier this year, okay, his net worth at the time was $30 million. Let me tell you some billion. $30 billion. Let me tell you some interesting things about this guy. You ready? Jim Simons gets out of college and he starts working for the NSA. He works for the NSA, comes out with a system to be able to investigate and find out what Russia was doing. Just an absolute hero in the NSA. They love him until 1968 when he gets fired because he publicly criticized that the Vietnam War was a bad idea. Boom, the NSA fires him. Then he goes and becomes a teacher. I think he's teaching at Harvard, a couple different places. Then he's messing around and then at 40 years old without a finance degree, he somehow gets into the financial industry, starts a company called Renaissance Technology. Okay, Renaissance Technology.

1982. He uses AI. Vinnie in 1982. Okay, let me say this again. He uses his AI in 1982 way ahead of his game at the time. Everybody who was hedge fund managers or funds that they would create, they would say it's not a good idea to trade any kind of the stocks faster than a week and a half. Like you got to let it sit. And then he says, no, I don't agree with that. He hires this guy guy from MIT. Comes in the two of them together start a fund called The Medallion fund using AI with a technology that was secret till today. No one has access to but watch what happens with this Renaissance technology. 1988. The fund starts. 1989. They don't have the technology finalized yet. The fund does minus 4% in 1989. You know what it does the next year. The next year. The fund does 55% return from there till today. I'll give you three funds to compare if in 1988 you had a dollar to invest between S&P

500 Berkshire Hathaway or his fund Medallion Fund to see how that money would do for you. $1 in 1988 till today. Okay, let me say it again. So you got S&P 500, okay? Then you have Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffett. Then he got his fund A1 1988 invested to S&P 500 today's $42. Okay, a dollar invested into Berkshire Hathaway in 1988 today would be $154, killing it by the way. Both of them are ridiculous returns. You're talking about you that means you put $100,000. You now have $4.2 million. You put $100,000 on Berkshire Hathaway. Now you have $15.4 million. However, if you would have put a dollar in The Medallion Fund in 1988, you know what it be today? $44,000. What annual rate of return of 69%. No, you said $44,000. Okay, got you. $44,000 for $1. For $1, S&P is $42.

berkshire's $154 the dollar $44,000 so guess what at the beginning when they're talking about this AI software that they have that's going to revolutionize all the funds. They say you guys out of your freaking Minds. This guy gets so pissed off to prove his argument that they have the best fund. Guess what he does by mid90s. He says moving forward here's what we're no longer doing. We're no longer you know allowing anybody else to invest into this fund. We don't want any more money. It's just current employees and previous employees and people that have already put money in the fund. So no more new money. Then guess what they do in 2005. In 2005 makes an announcement. Everybody that has money in The Medallion fund you got to get out. We we're going to give all your money. You got to get out. This is going to be us. We don't want any other new money. So you know who ends up being the only people that have ever used Medallion fund since

2005 till today only current and previous employees. 69% rate of return. You know what the net. Everybody would criticize and they would say well their fees are very high. You know how much their fees are Adam. Do you know what their fees are. So let's just say you make 50% rate of return with Medallion fund. Their fees were roughly 44 to 50%. Did you understand what I just said. Their fees are roughly 4. And everybody would say why are your fees so high. He says because even after our fees. Guess what their net returns were. You know what their net returns were. Their net returns were 39%. Wow. Did you understand what I just said. Their net returns were 39%. So now you may say well what's 39% compared to everybody else. Let's go through it. You know who's the second best since 1988 or even earlier than that. George Sor was 31%. You know what Warren Buffett was 21%. You know what rayal was fund is 12%. These guys net

after fees is 39% and he got into this industry at 40 years old. What should the story tell you? This is a guy that eventually got into's. He was a math guy in his 40s. He was able to find his calling to do what he did. He made people so much money that now out of the four funds, The Medallion fund is the number one Fund in the world that you can't invest in. Wow, it's a secrecy. Their technology on the back, and everybody's trying to figure it out. Nobody knows and nobody tells anybody, and they're still destroy join everybody in an annual Berkshire Hathaway. Rob, pull this up. Type in Warren Buffett and Jim Simons. Type in Warren Buffett and Jim Simons on YouTube if you can do that's the clip right there. Click on that clip. They asked the ladies asking a question shareholders are asking a question. Are you ever planning on using the quantum, you know, math that Jim Simons uses where Berkshire Hathaway look what their answer is. Make it bigger rap.

go ahead. What do you think of quants? Jim Simon's Medallion Fund has done 39% net of fees for three decades, which proves that it works. Will you consider hiring a Quant lieutenant in Berkshire to work alongside with Ted or Todd? Well, I'll say no to the second part. I'll let Charli. First part. War buff. Well, that's rather interesting. The leading Quant fund did fabulously on the short-term trading. They found little algorithms that work to make them had predictive value, and as long as they kept working, they just kept doing it as long as the money kept coming in. When they got using the same system just to finding some little algorithm and trying to do it mechanically for long-term stock predictions, the record was not nearly as good. And in the short-term stuff, they found that if they tried to do it too much, they destroyed their own advantage. So, there was a limit on the amount they could make, but they were very, very smart. Yes, they got very rich. Very smart. Very.

smart and very rich. Yeah, and very high grade by the way. Yeah, can you pull up so it's so they do respect that's the point. They and high grade by the way. By the way, pull up, pull up Rob with the link I just sent you to show the comparison so people know on what happens when you if you can pull this up Rob. Uh, uh, this here shows exactly what I've been telling you guys, but it actually shows you the number so you can see it. Here's how they compare. Go all the way down, go down, down, down, down, down. You'll see, keep going down. What it shows, the funds they compare, keep going, keep going, keep going, right there, right there, right above it, right there, look at that. Okay, Medallion fund versus other legendary investment funds. Okay, Jim Simons, what number do you see, the return Vinnie, what do you see, green to the right, annuals annualized return .1%. Quantum fund as George Soros, what do you see, 32%. Steve Cohen, what do you see.

30% M me mellan from Peter Lynch. 29% haway. 20% 25 and r. Was what 12 guys do you realize like what it means for you to do 39.1%. 30 straight years. Tom how insane is this to do something like this in business th. This is beyond insane and um can I mention a number we both know sure is that okay um. PHP was growing a ker cumulative annual growth rate. It was a six-year ker of 35% which was unheard of in the insurance industry. People would come in sit in the conference room and Pat would tell them the story about serving the middle class saving America through you know free enterprise and enabling all these wonderful people to be insurance agents and have new careers. They say that's very interesting and then Pat would say yeah half of them are Hispanic half of them are female the average is a 37y old female and they would say WTF seriously that's an incredible group he says yeah and our uh our our six-year ker is 35% and they be

like wait what that is so hard to do that was unheard of and that was six years this guy's been doing it for 4 40 yeah that it's incredible well the the great thing about life and business is the following we had a meeting last time with our guys from B David consultant Rob if you can go to bid.com most people don't know we run a full-fledged uh consulting firm upstairs if you go to bv.com you can go all the way to the bottom and find out the 5x5 uh uh brochure download it look at it watch the 22-minute video about how we consult with our clients but the conversation we were having with our guys yesterday uh uh and and you know I was telling them I said the challenge with most people in business is the following here's what I want you to think about think about how many people were in the room in 1988 89 2000 when Jim Simon said we're going to build the number one fun in the world

and everyone's going to want to come to us, and we're eventually going to tell the world no, and everybody had been Shell Shocked from the 1987 crash. That's right. So think about, think about you're in the room, and this guy's casting a vision. What percentage of the room should believe what he has to say? Not a lot, right? 'Cause they don't. He has no record. Why would you, why would you, why would you believe him? His background is not the best. Who should believe him? What percentage should you say, This's a little bit full of, you know, delusional, he thinks very highly of himself. What do you think? Are those not natural things to believe? Of course, of course it is. It's very normal to believe that, but there's a few people that buy into a vision of what's going to be taking place, and they stick around 5, 10, 15, 20 years later. Now imagine a people that stuck around, that they have the money in the fund. Oh God, think about what happened to you. They're crazy.

you're like your family's begging you to say, Hey man, is there any way you can get me a job? No man, can you give me a job there just for one day so I can be part of the current or previous? They already know many people try to play games. They don't do that. They reach out to recruit. We can't get people to come in here to work, right? If in life you have the opportunity to either be part of the right environment where you can win at the highest level or be some that goes and drives an idea to go out there and do something big with it, you're ahead of the game. By the way, Rob, if you can pull up the one thing on, on, uh, end of this month, I'm doing a webinar AI specifically on how AI is disrupting businesses, and we're actually giving a white paper to everybody at the end of the webinar. Only the people that will be. It's a free webinar. It's Tuesday, July 30th, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

download the go-to that QR code and register because there's limited seating only for this webinar. It doesn't allow us to have 30,000 people. It's limited to, I think, 3,000 people. So get your name in there because you'll get the webinar, you'll be a part of it, and you'll get the white paper. Uh, we'll actually break down a few different things that we're doing that's working for our end right now with B. David Consulting. But anyways, I learned about Jim Simons many, many years ago, but I got even deeper into the story sometime this week. I said the world needs to hear his story because they'll be inspired by this guy, Jim Simon P when you're talking about so the AI, the AI technology that was happening back then, and the fact that it's still secret. What H, how did he have that back then, and why is it still, is it just like company Secrets they won't let it out, this algorithm stuff that they were talking about well the average person

they'll say Buy and Hold, right? Okay, and by the way, the Buy and Hold principle for the average person is the right advice, yeah, the right advice for the person that is the average person, which is 99% of people. Buy and hold, dollar-cost averaging, put in $500 every month. 30 years from now, it's going to turn into a couple million dollars. And don't worry if the market does this, and don't take your money out. This guy simply sat there and said, Big one in the S&P, give you little dividends. Yeah, and by the way, even Warren Buffett made a bet. He says, I'm willing to bet any fund manager that wants to bet with me a million dollars over 10 years. Choose any one of your funds. You will not outperform S&P 500. So this guy named Teddy Cedris or something like that, I have a hard time pronouncing his name, he takes the million-dollar bet. Just type in Warren Buffett million-dollar bet S&P 500 Ted.

this guy takes the B. He says, oh, our funds are going to do better. He says, you choose your, uh, best funds and you tell me if they do better. What's his name? Ted seed is Ted sides. I don't even know how to say his name but the hedge fund manager Ted takes the, uh, million doll bet against Warren Buffett. A know what the funds end ends up doing the S&P 500 over a, uh, go click on that R so we can see the numbers. I think over a 10-year period S&P 500 does 150% 157%, uh, uh, go a little lower R. I think it should be right there, yeah, right there. The S&P 500 during that decade did 125.81614610. Figure that out with machine learning and math parents, whatever you got with your kids. If there's anything I can tell you guys, parents encourage your kids to take math seriously. The future of everything we do is going to be around math. If you right now, we have 15 machine learning people we hired, you know what.

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this website and we'll be launching that first week of September at the Vault conference. But again everything is math AI machine learning those who learn who leverage that will be competing in a Marketplace. Tom you were trying to say something no no no I you you've said it beautifully. I just always remind people when you see stories like this look at it through the lens of history that bet started what year 2017 right Ted and Warren at the end of 2008 the SNP looked like it was pretty it was pretty behind in the BET remember that what happened in 2008 and yet over 10 years as Warren Buffett predicted not only did the S&P recover it took off and I I look at that and I I look at how at the beginning of that Medallion fund how every money manager had been horribly embarrassed in 1987 by the mega crash and this guy is in 1988 saying look I know the smoke hasn't quite cleared um Vinnie on your um investment resources but we think we

got a better way and you're like, What are we talking about? The whole Market just landed on everybody. Everybody was wrong in one way or another. 1987, this is a terrible crash, and you're telling me you've got some better way. Where were you a year ago? You have to look at things through the lens of history and kind of see just how profound and how amazing these outcomes were. I love the story about Jim Simons. I'll kind of make it applicable to the common guy out there. You know, you talked about active investing versus passive investing and how what was it 90% of active investors don't beat the market. So what's a different term for Passive investing? That's just index investing, in which Warren Buffett basically says, Listen, just buy the market. If you can't beat the market, just buy the market, AKA buy the S&P 500 and just hold, or as the bitcoiners call it, huddle, HODL. You know, there it is, hug.

to with that thing, but it's totally okay when you're an investor to be boring, and it's okay to be good. You don't have to be great. Uh, as much as I would love to be a part of this Medallion fund, you can't get into it. But just buying the S&P 500 has served myself and many millionaires in America very well, and you don't got to be a brainiac to do that. So you know what did Steve Jobs say, that the ones that are crazy enough to think that they can change the world actually do it. This guy, uh, he kind of maybe took a little bit of Gandhi in his thing. He said, you know, um, at first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they call they crazy, and then you win. This guy figured it out reiz revolutionized AI. Um, bottom line is you can build well slow. How would you like to meet Dwayne Johnson, take a picture with him, and be celebrated in front of nearly 10,000 people at Palm Beach?

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"39% Return AFTER Fees!" - The Secret Fund That DOMINATES Warren Buffett & George Soros

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The Remarkable Journey of Billionaire Jim Simons

Jim Simons, a former NSA employee, became a teacher before entering the financial industry at 40 without a finance degree, where he founded Renaissance Technology in 1982.

Despite a rough start, the Medallion Fund, using AI technology, achieved a 55% return in 1990 and has since delivered a staggering 69% annual rate of return, outperforming the S&P 500 and Berkshire Hathaway with a remarkable growth of $44,000 from a $1 investment in 1988.

Simons' fund ultimately closed to outside investors, demonstrating his commitment to exclusive ownership.

Jim Simons' Medallion fund has achieved a remarkable 39% net return after fees, outperforming other top investors like George Soros and Warren Buffett.

The fund's high fees, around 44 to 50%, have been justified by its exceptional net returns.

Despite being secretive and using advanced technology, the fund has consistently outperformed others in the industry, making it the top-performing fund globally.

Unprecedented Success in Investment and Insurance Business

The Medallion fund has achieved a remarkable annualized return of 39.

1% over 30 years, outperforming other legendary investment funds.

In the insurance industry, PHP demonstrated an unheard-of 35% cumulative annual growth rate, driven by a unique approach and diverse agent base.

The speaker emphasizes the rarity of such extraordinary success in business and encourages a shift in mindset for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Jim Simons had a challenging time convincing people of his vision due to his lack of a strong background, but some believed in him and reaped the rewards.

He is hosting a webinar on AI and business disruption, offering a white paper to a limited number of attendees.

Jim Simons' story and his pioneering work in AI technology continue to inspire people today.

The Effectiveness of the Buy and Hold Strategy

The Buy and Hold strategy, including dollar-cost averaging, is recommended for the average person to build wealth over time.

Warren Buffett's million-dollar bet against a hedge fund manager demonstrated the S&P 500's ability to outperform actively managed funds.

A team of 15 machine learning experts is currently working on a new site aimed at providing efficient and lopsided news stories for quick consumption.

The Impact of AI and Machine Learning on Investing

AI and machine learning are becoming increasingly important in the competitive marketplace, as highlighted by the success of the Medallion fund.

Warren Buffett's advice to engage in passive or index investing, such as buying the S&P 500, emphasizes the long-term success of this strategy.

The story of Jim Simons and the Medallion fund demonstrates the profound outcomes that can be achieved through AI-driven investing over time.

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