> Above all else - working with smart people is its own reward Of course, there's also the reward of building, creating, and contributing to something that ext

> Above all else - working with smart people is its own reward Of course, there's also the reward of building, creating, and contributing to something that extends beyond yourself. It's hard to believe that a career at a secretive hedge fund that invests its own funds would provide much along that axis of career satisfaction. Some individuals are motivated by their interaction with smart colleagues, but others by the process of the work itself, others by financial incentive, others by prestige, others by societal impact, etc. There is no one-size-fits-all metric that guarantees satisfaction.