Does Ken Griffin have to submit a board package?

I couldn’t figure out why he’d care to have so much RE in NYC. Of course he can, but why bother?

Funny he is neighbors with Izzy now.

of course he does

After he helped the widow Safra downsize on 5th Avenue in 2009, I'm sure he's able to fill out the paperwork. Maybe he found Ms. Safra's building too liberal, so wanted to move uptown.

It was nice of you to call her "the widow Safra" rather than "the black widow Safra." Two very rich husbands who died of most unnatural causes . . ..

I don't know why you need to bring color into this.

>> Funny he is neighbors with Izzy now.

It must have been beneath Ken’s dignity to have to run into Igor on the elevator rides at the old digs.

No he doesn't. When the Board knows you, they can waive you in. Board packages are for people the Board doesn't know.

I'm with George here, I'm guessing that Ken Griffin, worth 45 billion is not submitting a board package here. Reference letters, tax returns, brokerage and bank statements etc... I guess Izzy would write him a good personal reference letter ; )

What's the tea on Izzy? Seems like a solid guy and quite a backstory, also a local New York boy.

.. no comment, but NYPost has plenty on him

>> What's the tea on Izzy? Seems like a solid guy and quite a backstory, also a local New York boy.

I don’t know much. General impression is that he is pretty low-key publicly, unlike Ken. Like Ken, he does right by investors and seems to prioritize reputation over money (acknowledging that reputation is key to money long-term). Ken is a great trader (still), while Izzy’s key innovation was a business model that Ken has increasingly adopted in various forms. Poach talent rather than develop it, let independent teams put on whatever trade they want with no oversight beyond the amount of capital they’re allocated, and manage it all by simply increasing capital to winners and cutting capital from losers, possibly all the way to zero (aka “firing”), with pretty tight bounds.