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Small books, lots of teams, not a lot of flexibility, haven’t scaled. That’s my impression. I know a few good people from there who have left. I do not know anyone who is still there as far as I know. 
 

The big pods are in a league of their own.
 

Then you have a bunch of mostly smaller, mostly newer, attempts at copy-cats: Cinctive, ARYA, Greenland, etc. 

Funds like Verition and Exodus Point are somewhere in between. 

 

Thanks for sharing. Why do you think Arya failed to scale despite being around for a good couple of years?

 
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Who hasn’t failed to scale. They’re likely two decades behind the last pod shop who scaled well (baly that launched in 2001?) and 30-40 behind the others who launched in the 80s and 90s. That’s a huge technology (+ other areas) hurdle to overcome. 
 

Not to mention the money the established pods will throw at people (capital and guarantees). How do you hire the best talent  when you (can/do) offer a fraction of the capital and a fraction/no substantive guarantee and other pod shops can do both? 

 

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