{"id":16381,"date":"2026-06-01T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16381"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:40:23","slug":"jane-street-everyone-is-wondering-how-they-do-it-make-oodles-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=16381","title":{"rendered":"Jane Street &#8211; everyone is wondering how they do it (make oodles of $$$)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first I&#8217;d heard of Jane Street was reading the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Going-Infinite-Rise-Fall-Tycoon\/dp\/132410581X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BXJKHB1JVR3A&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fYMrpghiZ0OIuia10uBicVQjKTJ5I6i9I65JWy2m4EhQAJaevL4A3QQtLog2mrCbQCnuI4YLKV8_pYbLwSyDo4a5HAy3T7PfdUN2ybIqijEeC1WVq9K1P0cQzm8fTLVWWH9crZC1vsWjeGW9DWjscOJQ_BRZBIG86cZGBb8t5kaFRu6iDcd9Jf5kPRcIcTzey8kAg0CaP4hxwZC8htjMiRT0qINDg_KMBRRLPVVteL8.EfA59XfAxNn8Htz58FturrWrpUbvGxLSXVSoveyj-vk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=going+infinite+by+michael+lewis&amp;qid=1780284989&amp;sprefix=going+i%2Caps%2C316&amp;sr=8-1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Going-Infinite-Rise-Fall-Tycoon\/dp\/132410581X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=BXJKHB1JVR3A&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fYMrpghiZ0OIuia10uBicVQjKTJ5I6i9I65JWy2m4EhQAJaevL4A3QQtLog2mrCbQCnuI4YLKV8_pYbLwSyDo4a5HAy3T7PfdUN2ybIqijEeC1WVq9K1P0cQzm8fTLVWWH9crZC1vsWjeGW9DWjscOJQ_BRZBIG86cZGBb8t5kaFRu6iDcd9Jf5kPRcIcTzey8kAg0CaP4hxwZC8htjMiRT0qINDg_KMBRRLPVVteL8.EfA59XfAxNn8Htz58FturrWrpUbvGxLSXVSoveyj-vk&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=going+infinite+by+michael+lewis&amp;qid=1780284989&amp;sprefix=going+i%2Caps%2C316&amp;sr=8-1\">Going Infinite<\/a> and how <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Bankman-Fried#:~:text=Bankman%2DFried%20founded%20the%20FTX%20cryptocurrency%20exchange%20and,a%20global%20reach%20with%20more%20than%20130\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sam_Bankman-Fried#:~:text=Bankman%2DFried%20founded%20the%20FTX%20cryptocurrency%20exchange%20and,a%20global%20reach%20with%20more%20than%20130\">Sam Bankman-Fried <\/a>got his start. Bottom line is they are better than everyone else at what they do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How a Secretive Trading Empire Is Taking Over Wall Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LkMI6uvqZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first I&#8217;d heard of Jane Street was reading the book Going Infinite and how Sam Bankman-Fried got his start. Bottom line is they are better than everyone else at what they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics","category-investing-and-business","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16382,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions\/16382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}