{"id":30571,"date":"2012-08-08T06:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30571"},"modified":"2012-08-08T06:11:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T10:11:05","slug":"sometimes-hedge-fund-associates-would-rather-bake-muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/sometimes-hedge-fund-associates-would-rather-bake-muffins.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Hedge Fund Associates Would Rather Bake Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observer &#8211; Ben Gifford graduated from Dartmouth in 2010. He sought work teaching in Asia, but those kinds of jobs don\u2019t exactly grow on trees, so he went to work for Bridgewater Associates. But life at the $125 billion hedge fund didn\u2019t exactly agree with him, and after a year-and-a-half at the firm, he decided to pursue other dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Such as? As a high schooler in Newton, Mass., Mr. Gifford and childhood friend Sean Pears had an epiphany. A bakery could sell muffins, and give customers the chance to flip a coin. Heads, they get a second muffin, free. Tails, just one muffin. Double or Muffin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2012\/08\/sometimes-hedge-fund-associates-would-rather-bake-muffins\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observer &#8211; Ben Gifford graduated from Dartmouth in 2010. He sought work teaching in Asia, but those kinds of jobs don\u2019t exactly grow on trees, so he went to work for Bridgewater Associates. But life at the $125 billion hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30574,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30571\/revisions\/30574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}