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Jon Epstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So the way it arrives and searches for, if you would, the optimal solutions or designs

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

to a problem is through a stage of, you know, a set of evolutions, like essentially breeding different designs together, you know, and then mutations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So we run a hedge fund using this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

One of Cineon's products through a subsidiary called Cineon Investment Management is a hedge fund that is, we think, the first fully AI-traded hedge fund.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

That I can't disclose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Oh, it's private, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

It's growing rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So the goal of a hedge fund is not to deliver outsized returns, it's to deliver consistent returns around in the 10% range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

No one objects to higher, of course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

But the real reason big investors invest in hedge funds is to achieve stable, good returns, and ideally returns that are not correlated with other investments they have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And so one of the...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

unique things about sending an investment management is that our fund is highly uncorrelated with other funds, whether they're traded by machines or by- You said it's growing fast though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Assets under management, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

So the things that make funds, make money for the fund runners, there's two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

One is the return and the other is the amount of money that's out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Order of magnitude or higher growth in assets under management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

That's as much as you'll get out of me here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

And that's not my particular guess.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein

I need to be a little circumlocutory about that.