Before starting Amazon, Jeff Bezos was a vice president at D. E. Shaw, a global investment and technology development firm. At D.E. Shaw, Bezos worked on developing computer-based quantitative investment strategies. He was not a Wall Street investment banker or trader, as such, but rather worked on developing technology and algorithms for the firm’s trading and investment activities.
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” – Darrell Huff