If Alex Gerko had stuck with his plan A, he might have stayed a Russian academic rather than becoming one of Britain’s wealthiest billionaires with an estimated £12bn fortune.
After gaining a maths PhD in Moscow, however, Gerko concluded he could not be world-class as an intellectual.
Instead, he moved to London where, with the help of an Icelandic supercomputer and 25,000 AI chips, he built XTX Markets: an algorithmic trading firm and part of a new elite that has rewired financial trading.
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