Bloomberg – After graduating from Harvard University in 1993, Julio DePietro got a job with Citadel Investment Group, then a small, obscure financial firm in Chicago. He planned to stay just long enough to pay off his student loans.
By the time DePietro left 10 years later, he was a partner at one of the world’s largest hedge funds.
“When I started at Citadel, I didn’t know anything about finance,” he said in an interview last week at New York’s Tribeca Grand Hotel. “I studied political philosophy at Harvard; I didn’t take a single economics course. I’d never even seen a financial statement or quarterly report.”
