was raised in Coney Island, and he taught calculus and physics at the Dalton School after dropping out of Cooper Union. From Dalton, he was hired at Bear Stems, where he worked from approximately 1976 to 1981 before reportedly starting his own wealth management business. The source of his reportedly-vast w

e a hypocrite. I wanted to be free. I was not remotely ambivalent about what I wanted: to be free. That was the reason to make money." His rise at Bear Stems was a steep one. And he soon became the protegee of Jimmy Cayne (also hired by Ace Greenberg on a whim—he met him in a bridge game—who would go on

and moved on to teaching calculus and physics at the Dalton School in Manhattan. Within a couple of years, he was recruited into options trading at Bear Stems. In 2012, the PED developed the first mathematical model of how human colon-cancer cells evolve and how they become immune to inhibitor-drug therap