computers

bridgewater <-> google

As computers increase their share of decision making in our modern era the goings on around them increase in relevance.

Last week the top theoretical guy left a top hedge fund for a top computer company in the way top bankers used to go from wall street to government and back. Movements that created shifts of power and influence and profits. It must be recalled that governments were much more pivotal institutions in the past than they are today.

While the guy atop anything never knows how things actually get done google acquired someone involved with the most successful commercial implementation of their product. Remember they now sell llm tokens in addition to ads and robot car rides.

The returns to this guy’s theoretical knowledge having been reached, bridgewater lends him to google to dip his toes back in the cutting edge with the expectation being he brings that back at some point. Rinse and repeat.

Bridgewater and goldman and nvidia and the rest generate profits by being able to more successfully implement leading edge computing.

Lastly, recall that computing is a particular type of technology but the better use of the best technology has always yielded an advantage.