I see your point, though respectfully disagree. Voleon gets some real advantages from being "the only game in town" by being the only remotely large quant fund right next door to Berkeley, and Jon McAuliffe has his pick of good students from Berkeley. I don't think Voleon should be able to reap all of those advantages but not play by California's rules.
I wonder how this article is going down in the Berkeley stat department...
Voleon is competing with the local unicorn population. Unless their returns are amazing, you can get comparable lifetime returns at higher sharpe as a big tech employee.
auntienomen|2 years ago