Ken Griffin

But over the next few years, you know, I love my job.

I love the colleagues I work with.

And I'm very fortunate to have a number of ties to friends and to acquaintances in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

And I think that I...

I've been able to have my voice heard on important issues.

And I'd like to think that I've nudged the country in small ways in good directions.

I mean, the president and I worked on Operation Warp Speed together in the first administration.

The flights out of Wuhan, Mike Pompeo and I made most of that happen together.

So I've found that this administration, and for that matter, the Obama administration, were administrations that you could make meaningful things happen that benefited the American people.

In the Biden administration, we were able to take an idea that we funded in Chicago, a small group of us funded, providing every child in Chicago in the pandemic with internet access.

I mean, it's like incomprehensible to believe that there are kids in America that did not have access to the internet.

and there were tens of thousands of such kids in Chicago.

That concept was rolled into one of the national infrastructure bills in the Biden administration.

So I'd like to believe that I can continue to pursue philanthropic efforts and efforts that do help to improve, let me use different words, to ensure that every single child in America can still get on that on-ramp to the American dream.

So let's listen.

You cannot imagine how painful it was each and every day under the Biden administration to look at what new crazy proposal was being put into place to solve a problem that didn't even exist.

I mean, our constant friction at Citadel with the government across umpteen different aspects of our business was exhausting.

And to have that literally end on one day, election day.

just gives you so much energy as an entrepreneur to go back and build your damn business.

So the biggest sea change I've seen across American executives has been just like the giant sigh of relief.