Good overview and history of Jim Simons and creation of RenTech. Sadly, author seemed unable to remove his personal political lens and tries to portray Bob Mercer as a political crackpot with alt-right beliefs. Clearly the author embraces all political views as long as they are aligned with his own (you know the type). So, a truly brilliant, wise and kind-hearted man like Bob Mercer is clearly suspect in this authors mind because of his traditional, conservative (and constitutional) views — which are clearly unfathomable to the author, and repeatedly cast as suspect and damaging. This would have been an otherwise good read except for its unwarranted attempt as a hit piece on the Mercers.

A famed hedge fund needs a better book. This story doesn’t really tell us much about the hedge fund and it’s strategies and goes off tangent with its political focus at the end. Eh.....