Paul Tudor Jones
Founder of Tudor Investment Corporation
“There's a real difference between what the public wants, and the way companies are managed. Talk to me about the humanity in your process to acquire your purpose, not just your profit.”
Summary
On this episode of Leadership Matters, hosts Alan Fleischmann and Governor John Hickenlooper talk with Paul Tudor Jones, founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation as well as the Robin Hood Foundation, New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization.
In this wide ranging discussion, they cover wage inflation, serving people in need, and incentivizing companies to align with the public’s interests. Our guest gets candid about how he grew into the leader he is today, and how he is working to modernize capitalism by reducing the many social inequities within corporations.
They also discuss a pivotal moment in his life, when at 33, he became deflated upon realizing that his high school class-adoption program wasn’t making a difference to college admission rates, despite the years of effort he’d put in. This was a transformative leadership moment where he recognized that he needed to get involved in societal reform and align his career with organizations for change. It lead to his creation of the Robin Hood Foundation.
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Guest Bio
Paul Tudor Jones is the founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, a leading asset management firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Virginia where he earned a degree in economics. After graduation he worked as a clerk on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Eventually he went to work with his cousin trading cotton future on the New York Cotton Exchange. One of Jones’ earliest and major successes was predicting Black Monday in 1987.
Tudor manages $17.7 billion in broad and diverse assets, including global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities, event-driven strategies, and technical trading systems.
Paul Todor Jones is heavily involved in charity. He started the Robin Hood Foundation in the late 1990’s, and more recently Just Capital. He speaks regularly on a variety of financial, philanthropic, and social topics.
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