Two Sigma
How Two Sigma treated investing as a data science problem and hired physicists who had never seen a stock chart.
In nineteen ninety, hedge funds hired traders looking for price patterns and making strategic bets. Two Sigma asked a different question entirely. What if investing was a data science problem instead of a financial one? What if the best investors were physicists and computer scientists who could find signals in data that nobody else saw? Two Sigma hired astrophysicists, mathematicians, software engineers. They built systems processing petabytes of data daily. Satellite imagery showed shipping volumes. Weather patterns indicated crop yields. Shipping records revealed supply chains. The data revealed correlations invisible to traditional traders. Returns averaged fifteen percent annually.
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