How to win: Steve Cohen on markets and the Mets

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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What are the keys to Steve Cohen’s incredible success as a trader and hedge fund manager – and how is he bringing those lessons to the baseball diamond? Steve Cohen, the founder, CEO and president of Point72, and the majority owner of the New York Mets, discusses with Tony Pasquariello in this conversation recorded live at the Goldman Sachs Apex Symposium. This episode was recorded on June 4th, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Goldman Sachs Exchanges, great investors.
0:05.0	I'm Tony Pascarello, Global Head of Hedge Fund coverage in Goldman Sachs' global banking and markets' business.
0:11.0	I recently had the great pleasure of sitting down with Steve Cohen, founder, CEO, and president of .72.
0:18.0	Steve is one of the world's greatest hedge fund managers, and he'd be on
0:22.3	anyone's list of the most formidable traders of all time. We sat down in early June at Goldman
0:28.7	Sacks' Apex Symposium, where Steve discussed his path to investing, the traits that led to his
0:34.4	investing success, and his broader views on the markets
0:37.9	and the hedge fund landscape.
0:39.5	He also shared some insight on what it's been like
0:42.6	since he became the majority owner of the New York Mets
0:46.1	and his approach to leading the iconic franchise
0:48.9	over the past five years.
0:50.6	We hope you enjoy this conversation.
0:53.1	Steve, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today.
0:55.0	Happy to be here.
0:56.0	Let's go back to the very beginning.
0:58.0	How do we remember it?
1:00.0	So what was it that led you to a career in the markets?
1:04.0	Yeah, I mean, my interest in the market started really young.
1:09.0	I had grandparents that used to talk about stocks they owned.
1:12.6	And when I was 1213, I'd read the sports page and then right the next page was the stock exchange listings.
1:19.6	And so I was sort of math oriented and just started looking at the prices.
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