Very welcome to the podcast in Good Company.

Today we are joined by Ken Griffin, one of the best investors of all time.

Now Ken started his journey in finance from his Harvard dorm.

He founded Citadel, which has a great ambition

of being the most successful investment firm of all times.

Now, that's the kind of ambitions that we like.

So, very welcome, Ken. Great to have you on. It is a pleasure to be here today. Thank you so much for

taking the time to do this interview. Fantastic. Now, what motivated you to go into finance in the first place?

So I've always been interested in the stock market for reasons I don't fully understand.

In third grade, I wrote a paper where I set forth that I wanted to learn how the stock market works. I've been on that

journey now for almost 40 years and I still feel like I'm at the beginning of the learning curve.

The equity markets around the world are just awash and interesting and complex problems,

the intersection of business models, earnings, and then the psychology of

investors. It's really an endless journey of learning trying to appreciate how to value businesses

and how to be a successful investor in the stock market. It is just the most complex game in the

world. Now, when you started back at your Harvard dorm, what was your vision?

What do you think this could be?

Well, what's interesting is in my college dorm as a freshman, I bought two put contracts

and home shopping network.

And in some sense, I owe my career to good journalism.

There was an article in Forbes by

Gretchen Morgensen where she set forth a thesis as to why Home Shopping Network was the meme stock of

...