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Among the group of smart people Musk is referring to, though? My impression is that there was a time when a plurality of, say, new physics PhDs were getting snapped up by quantitative trading firms, and that nowadays they're going into adtech ML roles instead.


Eh - I think a lot of Physics PhDs still become quants, I say this having majored in physics at one of these east coast universities.

Management consulting a little less so from PhD but definitely from undergrad.




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