The strongest intern team in history - the picture worth 80 Billion USD 😅
In the picture is the first intern class of HRT, organized in the winter of 2015
> In that intern class of 10, there are faces that are now shaking up the AI and Fintech technology world, including
- Jeffrey Yan (founder/CEO Hyperliquid)
- Alexandr Wang (cofounder/CEO Scale AI, currently leading AI at Meta)
- Scott Wu (cofounder/CEO Cognition)
- Jesse Zhang (later founder/CEO Decagon)
> Based on the current valuations of the companies they built:
- Hyperliquid ~40 Billion USD
- Scale AI ~29 Billion USD
- Cognition ~10.2 Billion USD
- Decagon ~4.5 Billion USD
> HRT (Hudson River Trading) is a famous quantitative trading (HFT/quant fund) company in New York, USA, specializing in high-speed trading of various assets, stocks
> The work environment at HRT is not the kind of “interning for the sake of it” but a place that gathers extraordinary minds to code together, debate ideas until late, and build extremely close relationships
> Networking here is also not the kind of “add on LinkedIn and forget”, but is about going through high pressure together, eating and living together, solving real-world problems – something that later helps them easily collaborate, introduce deals, recruit talent, and even support each other when raising funds
> Sometimes the teams shaking the world are just a very small group, but tightly connected.
> Just 10 young people, interning together one winter in New York, created a “network” that changed the global AI & fintech industry.
Source: Holdsation
In the picture is the first intern class of HRT, organized in the winter of 2015
> In that intern class of 10, there are faces that are now shaking up the AI and Fintech technology world, including
- Jeffrey Yan (founder/CEO Hyperliquid)
- Alexandr Wang (cofounder/CEO Scale AI, currently leading AI at Meta)
- Scott Wu (cofounder/CEO Cognition)
- Jesse Zhang (later founder/CEO Decagon)
> Based on the current valuations of the companies they built:
- Hyperliquid ~40 Billion USD
- Scale AI ~29 Billion USD
- Cognition ~10.2 Billion USD
- Decagon ~4.5 Billion USD
> HRT (Hudson River Trading) is a famous quantitative trading (HFT/quant fund) company in New York, USA, specializing in high-speed trading of various assets, stocks
> The work environment at HRT is not the kind of “interning for the sake of it” but a place that gathers extraordinary minds to code together, debate ideas until late, and build extremely close relationships
> Networking here is also not the kind of “add on LinkedIn and forget”, but is about going through high pressure together, eating and living together, solving real-world problems – something that later helps them easily collaborate, introduce deals, recruit talent, and even support each other when raising funds
> Sometimes the teams shaking the world are just a very small group, but tightly connected.
> Just 10 young people, interning together one winter in New York, created a “network” that changed the global AI & fintech industry.
Source: Holdsation