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Citadel

American multinational hedge fund and financial services company, founded in 1990 by Kenneth Griffin, who is its CEO and co-chief investment officer and owns most of the firm. It is legally distinct from the market maker Citadel Securities.

Of the 1 person here linked to Citadel, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Citadel

Founder

Role

Founder, CEO and co-chief investment officer, 1990–now
Source · medium confidence. Present-tense on the Citadel LLC page, which says he founded the firm in 1990 and owns about 85% of it. Citadel's own leadership page blocked automated fetches, so the current role rests on Wikipedia.
Still there
Finance 2 / 0
Ken Griffin
Founder and CEO of Citadel, one of the world's largest hedge funds; founder of Citadel Securities, a dominant US market-making firm
comfortable/upper-middle-class · well-connected · college degree