Key People
Mentors, peers, and collaborators — the human network behind one of history's greatest macro trading records.
Paul Tudor Jones
Subject — Founder & CIO, Tudor Investment Corporation; Co-founder, Robin Hood Foundation; Founder, JUST Capital
The subject of this knowledge base. Every source, concept, and relationship in the archive traces back to his five-decade record as trader and institution-builder.
Eli Tullis
Cotton Trading Mentor
The New Orleans cotton trader who hired the young PTJ onto the floor and whose example — and whose firing for insubordination while serving clients — forms the moral and professional origin story of the PTJ method.
Peter Borish
Chief Strategist & Co-creator of the Analog Model, Tudor Investment Corporation
PTJ's first research partner at Tudor and the co-builder of the 1987/1929 analog overlay that anticipated the crash — the quantitative half of the most famous call in macro history.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Peer Macro Trader & Robin Hood Dialogue Partner
Not mentor and not protégé — an equal. Druckenmiller is PTJ's recurring on-stage counterpart at the Robin Hood Investors Conference, where two of the greatest risk managers alive compare frameworks: PTJ reads technicals and historical analogs, Druck reads liquidity and central banks.
George Soros
Global Macro Pioneer — Generational Counterpoint
The founder of the global macro tradition both PTJ and Druckenmiller inherited; in the archive he functions as the era's measuring stick — the pioneer whose Quantum Fund defined what a macro trader could be.
Ray Dalio
Macro & Philanthropy Circle Connector
Founder of Bridgewater Associates and a fellow traveler in both macro markets and large-scale philanthropy; a recurring presence in the Robin Hood and ideas-festival circuit where PTJ's public dialogues take place.
Geoffrey Canada
Co-founder, Robin Hood Foundation; Founder, Harlem Children's Zone
PTJ's partner in building Robin Hood and the practitioner who gave venture philanthropy its proving ground — the Harlem Children's Zone is the model's most famous portfolio company.