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D. E. Shaw & Co.

New York investment firm founded in 1988 that applies computing to finance.

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Dates
1988 –
Place
New York City
Also known as
D. E. Shaw, D.E. Shaw, D. E. Shaw group
Over time
  1. Active 1988 –
  2. people who worked here Jeff Bezos (Senior Vice President (from 1992)) Dec 1990 – Jun 1994

D. E. Shaw & Co. was founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw. Jeff Bezos worked there from 1990 to 1994 and became a senior vice president before leaving to start Amazon.

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people who worked here

  • Jeff Bezos Dec 1990 – Jun 1994 Senior Vice President (from 1992) Primary record 12

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Timeline 2 dates
  1. 1988 – D. E. Shaw & Co.
  2. Dec 1990 – Jun 1994 Jeff Bezos worked at D. E. Shaw & Co.
Proof 3 sources
  1. Amazon.com, Inc. registration statement (Form S-1/A), 14 May 1997, Amazon, 14 May 1997. Primary record
    From December 1990 to June 1994, Mr. Bezos was employed by D.E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street investment firm, becoming Senior Vice President in 1992.
  2. Amazon.com CEO Bezos '86 delivers 2010 Baccalaureate address, The Daily Princetonian, May 2010. Scholarship & press
    At the time he made his decision, Bezos had just married MacKenzie Bezos ’92 and was working at the high-powered hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
  3. Who We Are, D. E. Shaw & Co.. Self-published
    Founded in 1988 over a small bookstore in downtown New York City, the D. E. Shaw group began with six employees and $28 million in capital and quickly became a pioneer in computational finance.
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