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- A hedge fund boss says he mainly hires people with no background in finance.
- Peter Brown also said he once offered a worker a pay rise in the early morning hours.
- Brown discussed his unusual hiring and retention strategies on a Goldman Sachs podcast.
The CEO of investment management firm Renaissance Technologies has said that when it came to hiring, he almost exclusively employed people with no background in finance.
Peter Brown was speaking on an episode of the podcast "Exchanges at Goldman Sachs."
He said he found it easier to teach "mathematicians about the markets than it is to teach mathematics and programming to people who know about the markets."