$RIVER
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The AI Billionaire Circle That Started as 10 Interns A decade ago, a small group of students met through math Olympiads, coding competitions, and an elite internship at Hudson River Trading (HRT). Today, many of them lead some of the world's biggest AI and crypto companies. [Spoken audio]: This is the new billionaire AI mafia. A few years ago, these guys were just competing in math Olympiads and coding tournaments. Now they're building some of the most important AI and tech companies in the world. Jesse Zhang, co-founder of Decagon, worth $4.5 billion. Alexander Wang from Scale AI, $29 billion. Scott Wu from Cognition, $10 billion. And Jeffrey Yan from Hyperliquid, $8.5 billion. They all went through the same internship program. Hudson River Trading, a quantitative trading firm powered by mathematical algorithms. The selection process was intense. Weeks of logic, math, and coding challenges were only a tiny percentage made it through. Ten years later, many of them are billionaires. The most extreme case is hyperliquid. The company generated $900 million in a single year with only 11 employees and without raising a single dollar from outside investors. What connected all of them wasn't luck. It was an environment obsessed with intelligence, competition, and speed.
