{"id":54165,"date":"2016-09-01T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54165"},"modified":"2016-09-01T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:51:39","slug":"quant-empire-forged-through-netflix-ascends-the-hedge-fund-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/quant-empire-forged-through-netflix-ascends-the-hedge-fund-heap.html","title":{"rendered":"Quant Empire Forged Through Netflix Ascends the Hedge Fund Heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Like so many relationships nowadays, this one was cemented through Netflix.<br \/>\nIt was October 2006 and Jaffray Woodriff was having trouble concentrating on his quantitative hedge-fund business. The programmer kept finding himself obsessing instead over a million-dollar contest that Netflix Inc. was running. It was part of the movie service\u2019s push to improve its viewer-preference algorithm. The money would go to the person who wrote code that gave it the biggest lift.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-01\/code-bros-united-by-netflix-run-two-of-world-s-best-quant-funds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Like so many relationships nowadays, this one was cemented through Netflix. It was October 2006 and Jaffray Woodriff was having trouble concentrating on his quantitative hedge-fund business. The programmer kept finding himself obsessing instead over a million-dollar contest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54166,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54165\/revisions\/54166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}