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Igor Tulchinsky

Founder & CEO, Worldquant

Search every verified Igor Tulchinsky interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Igor Tulchinsky, founder and CEO of WorldQuant, discussed his personal and professional journey in a March 2026 interview. He reflected on immigrating from Minsk, Belarus, to Israel and then the United States at age 11, describing the move as exciting despite the challenges of adapting to new languages and cultures. Tulchinsky noted the stress his parents faced and credited their resilience as a key factor in his own adaptability and success. In the same interview, Tulchinsky commented on Israel's potential as an "AI nation" and a "quant nation." He stated that his firm is "automatically long AI" because improvements in AI programs benefit his work, while also emphasizing that "there is no substitute for longevity and being in the business for a very long time and having lots of out-of-sample data." He also discussed an investment in a company that uses a technology for missile detection, describing it as slicing space into "loaves of bread" to produce a cleaner image for identifying missiles.

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