Jane Street Gets Into Mobile Gaming
Financial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it’s a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. So it was hard to resist writing about the trading shop entering the mobile phone game space (kinda). Back in 2013 Jane Street developed a card game called “Figgie,” which it made to simulate open outcry trading, teach trading nous, and generally burnish its reputation for quirkiness — de rigueur in the industry.
All you need are 40 cards from a normal deck, and the rules have been public for a while. During Covid, Jane Street made a virtual version for remote interns. Now it’s a mobile game that’s publicly available on the official Apple and Google app stores.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Financial Times Alphaville: Look, we know we write a lot about Jane Street, but it’s a fascinating place, and people seem interested in it. So it was hard to resist writing about the trading shop entering the mobile phone game space (kinda). Back in 2013 Jane Street developed a card game called “Figgie,” which it made to simulate open outcry trading, teach trading nous, and generally burnish its reputation for quirkiness — de rigueur in the industry.
All you need are 40 cards from a normal deck, and the rules have been public for a while. During Covid, Jane Street made a virtual version for remote interns. Now it’s a mobile game that’s publicly available on the official Apple and Google app stores.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.