Jane Street
Organization
Jane Street is an American multinational quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider headquartered in New York City. The firm employs thousands of people globally and is known for its heavy reliance on technology, mathematical modeling, and functional programming languages like OCaml to trade a wide variety of financial instruments.
3 episodes featuring Jane Street
Dwarkesh Podcast
Physicist Adam Brown breaks down general relativity and the geometry of gravity
Understanding general relativity from scratch demystifies the universe's most elegant theory and frames how future AI might discover new physics.
Jul 10, 2026 · 1h 38m
Dwarkesh Podcast
AI progress forces mathematicians to shift from proof to conceptualization
As AI systems begin solving complex mathematical benchmarks, humanity must redefine what it means to do mathematics and how future generations should learn.
Jun 30, 2026 · 1h 34m
Dwarkesh Podcast
Historian Ada Palmer dismantles the myth of Machiavelli as a teacher of evil
Understanding the true context behind Machiavelli's writings reveals how Renaissance geopolitics, book scarcity, and early printing shaped modern political philosophy.
Jun 16, 2026 · 2h 8m