My name is Raaid Ahmad. I am currently an MBA student at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, CA. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2006 with a BS in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics & Statistics. During the end of college and my first year of employment at an economic research firm (Analysis Group), I played over 3 million hands of poker. In 2007, I joined the Westport, CT based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates where I first provided investment consulting to clients and then managed and created strategies for high-risk trades and transitions in a $90bn portfolio. In May 2011, I left the firm to pursue my MBA.
My passions are solving analytical problems, teaching others, probability & statistics, and personal finance. I love watching football, playing poker, fantasy sports, and Ultimate Frisbee, telling stories, and trying to understand who people really are and what drives them.
I have some experiences that have given me unique knowledge in some strange areas. Feel free to ask me about them any time.
* Fantasy Wrestling (as in, a fantasy sport) in the mid-late 1990′s
* High school policy debate from 1998-2004
* The Magic: The Gathering card market on eBay circa 2004-2005
* Learning Mandarin to exploit arbitrage opportunities in the virtual economy of the online game Lineage 2
* Pallets of glowsticks