I've never heard of Jane Street before. It's kind of hard to have awe of a place...

csmiller · on Jan 20, 2023

This profile in the times caught my interest

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/business/dealbook/a-new-b...

yodsanklai · on Jan 20, 2023

They used to be quite a niche trading company, known in the functional language community for their use of OCaml. But they grew to one of the highest paying company in the world.

ilikerashers · on Jan 20, 2023

Most recently due to FTX leadership being Jane Street alumni but they get mentioned a lot here due to OCaml.

neilv · on Jan 20, 2023

Jane Street did outreaches at MIT (dunno which other schools), wrote blog-like things, used an exotic language, paid a lot of money (word gets around), etc.

rongenre · on Jan 20, 2023

They've been on radar forever, but I used to work in finance and like Ocaml.

algog · on Jan 20, 2023

Jane Street is huge in HFT space. SBF started at Jane Street.

22SAS · on Jan 20, 2023

I work in the HFT space. Jane Street in not an HFT, they are not trading in a very latency sensitive asset class.