Ken Griffin

We're good.

And part of that is, you know, very deliberately, we have a very large team here in New York City.

This is our largest city in the world by headcount.

I mean, New York is the financial capital of America today.

But our country has been, you know, over the decades defined by really good, robust competition between our cities.

And with the rise of Miami, the rise of both the venture capital community, hedge funds, traditional asset managers, we're seeing the emergence of a new financial center in the United States.

And I'm actually profoundly excited about that.

It's really, it's so much fun to be in a city where people are profoundly optimistic about their future.

Let me give you some, I'll flip it around.

So my executives are part of an all-volunteer workforce.

Most of them don't need to work.

And they can certainly all work anywhere they wanted to in financial services.

We have not had one senior person leave Miami.

Like, not one.

People...

There's always noise about this or that, but by and large, people love being in a city where your kids can jump in an Uber and you're not worried about it, where you can walk the streets at night and not worry about it.

And Chicago, unfortunately, over the last six or seven years, has been engulfed in a series of problems, which is our headquarters for years.

Asking people to leave for Chicago or New York or Miami has not been hard.

We've gone from probably 1,300 people in Chicago to a few hundred from being the primary tenant of one of the largest skyscrapers to I think we'll be down to two floors in a year.

I think the sad part of the story was how many people who had built lives in Chicago were willing to walk away from that and move to Miami or New York just given the