Still remember when I was an intern and we had a Q&A with Ray. Everyone asked questions and then one girl asked how Bridegwater thought about diversity. Keep in mind this is a company that is exceedingly white and male (like a lot of finance, but particularly so there at the time, idk what it’s like now)

Ray deadpanned, thought about it for 10 seconds, and then said “we don’t like to lower the bar for women…” and moved on to the next question. The girl was shocked. His assistants freaked out in the background and the CIO at the time looked puzzled as hell. They quickly switched the conversation to Dutch bonds or something but it was recorded and his response had a lot of fallout.

One of the funnier and stranger things I’ve ever seen in a professional setting. This is BW of course so everyone gives feedback on iPads and Ray got destroyed by everyone in the room (of course it didn’t matter) for being out of touch etc

Anyway, that’s my Ray story. A couple of my buddies still work there and they say they miss his presence around the fund even if it was time for him to move on… weird dude, cultish following, very very rich