DAVID-SIEGEL-TWO-SIGMA

I studied distributed computing at MIT. Now I run one of the world's largest distributed computing systems — it just happens to trade stocks.

Data is the new oil, but only if you have the technology to refine it.

I want to use data and technology to make cities work better. Finance is just one application of these tools.

The best investment you can make is in the engineers who build your systems. Technology compounds the same way capital does.

We process petabytes of data daily. A human trader could not analyze what our systems process in a single second.