At This $10 Billion Hedge Fund, Using AI Just Became Mandatory

Walleye Capital’s Will England is training his 400 employees to win with LLMs TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper goes in depth with Will England, the CEO and CIO of Walleye Capital, one of Every’s consulting clients. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Here’s a link to the episode transcript. If you aren’t putting ChatGPT to work, you’re leaving money on the table. That’s the message Will England, CEO, CIO, and managing partner of Walleye Capital, sent to his 400 employees. At his $10 billion hedge fund, using AI is a requirement. England believes AI can make his employees at least 20 percent smarter right now—and he’s pivoting his whole firm to use it to its maximum extent. (Our consulting team has been helping him do this. If you like what you read and want to help your team do what Will’s doing with AI, we’d love to hear from you.)

In this episode of AI & I, Dan Shipper and England talk about why he believes AI will help his team have an edge and how to lead a firm-wide pivot to AI from the front. England shares how he uses LLMs to write memos and evaluate risk with his team, as well as his larger vision for turning Walleye’s institutional knowledge into a living, searchable intelligence system. England also reflects on the history of technological change and what past transitions, specifically the period between the Civil War and World War I, can teach us about navigating this one. You can check out their full conversation here