“The thing about hedge funds, it’s the only industry in the world where not only do you have to be right, but everybody else also has to be wrong,” said Galen Hall, who earned more than $4 million from poker tournaments between 2011 and 2015 but nevertheless left to work for Bridgewater Associates (he was the one who recruited his friend Selbst there). “Where[as] if you’re a doctor, if you go by the book, you do the accepted thing, you do the convention every single time, you’re a pretty fucking good doctor, right?”
