Blake Waller

No one wants to get rich slowly. Sports 📈 Money 💰 Politics 🗳️ Facts you can’t unsee 👀

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@MintzGolf Did you in 2017 and 2018? If so, maybe we should.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@naiivememe 😂😂😂

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@unusual_whales Or is he playing chess trying to buy a little dip?

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

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[Milk Road Macro @MilkRoadMacro]

Ken Griffin just revealed the only thing he actually looks for when hiring at Citadel.

Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your internship list.

He wants one type of person: the athlete who excelled academically.

Here's why that combination matters to him.

The athlete knows what it takes to win. They've also felt what it's like to lose. That experience of pushing through both, and still showing up, is something you can't learn in a classroom.

The academic side tells him something different. It tells him the person knows how to manage their time. That they have the discipline to apply their mind under pressure. That when things get hard, they'll find a way through.

Griffin calls it perseverance and grit paired with high aspirations.

That's the profile he's building Citadel's AI team around.

Think about what that means for where the talent wars in finance and AI are headed.

The people running the biggest pots of money in the world aren't just looking for quants anymore.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@chamath Look at the bright side. Once the state hits rock bottom it may swing red!

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@atryanmarks We just don’t have enough money to pay these players, Ryan.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@atlasx100 Read a self-help non fiction book every month and listen to self help YouTube in the gym. Period. That’s it.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@Gosleepriya Entitlement

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@ewarren Go get em, Liz

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@middle_class_us $500 a week at Walmart for groceries?? Do you have 38 kids?

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@akafaceUS Scuba diving

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@ewarren Maybe we are rich because we… don’t… offer … free … healthcare?

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@texasrunnerDFW We need to win the AI arms race so they can restore American cultural traditions, have meaningful jobs with livable wages, and good quality of life. This is why a large majority of Gen Z should not vote.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@chasedownleads @atryanmarks They will, the government always solves my problems. Chin up.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@Mostlyy_Human @unusual_whales There are exceptions, but making poor decisions leads to living paycheck to paycheck a large majority of the time.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@Polymarket Gosh, I just can’t figure out why the rich are getting richer while the poor get poorer!

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@Totinhiiio @unusual_whales Or maybe she’s right, and maybe this is a recession, and the mag 7 are carrying us though it while the other 493 catch up? Maybe the glass is half full?

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

@Mostlyy_Human @unusual_whales If you hold the S&P you are up 45% in the last 2 years. The problem is the average American worker doesn’t invest anything.

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

Hey Elizabeth, let’s look at the actual dollars Jeff Bezos paid in total taxes vs that school teacher. All the taxes please let’s count it all, then compare. You Dems all hide behind statements like “fair share”. If you said the dollars Jeff or Elon or Trump paid it wouldn’t fit your narrative would it?! Because it’s the highest, isn’t it?

[Blake Waller @blake_waller]

47M people may be receiving, but only 30% of these are Americans. The other 70% are illegal aliens.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.