Coleman Church
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Podcast Appearances
It was as much, it was as fun as you could have having a job.
Really?
A job, yeah.
What was so fun about it?
Every day was different.
You're on a trading floor.
Everyone, every day is different.
You have a front seat.
You have a front seat and you're participating in,
global events every day uh mark's moving up moving down you're working with like a truly diverse bunch of people from all walks of life that are as close probably to merit meritocracy on trading floors you could get and it was very clear what the motivator was uh
it was making as much money as he could every single day and uh there was nowhere to hide from that so as a young person uh it couldn't be a better learning experience because every day at the end of the day there's a number next to your name and whether it was
through your good luck, bad luck, hard work, whatever, the number doesn't lie.
And that's the number.
And it's just a great way to learn and to have to face yourself and improve upon yourself.
And, you know, train forwards guys, you know, like PhDs from Princeton to guys that dropped out of college and,
We were all kind of in it as a team.
It was really fun.
You know what's funny?
I found that the best traders, and there's investors and there's traders, right?
Different, it's a different mindset.