Just saw this and honestly it's wild how Kairan Quazi went from working on Starlink at SpaceX straight into quantitative trading at Citadel. Like, the guy was literally fixing production-critical software for global internet connectivity and now he's switching to algorithms and trading infrastructure. That's a pretty massive pivot. The reasoning makes sense though - he mentioned seeing results in days instead of months, which I get. That fast feedback loop in finance is definitely different from aerospace timelines. What's interesting about Kairan Quazi is how he's framing it around the culture fit too. He talks about how Citadel values pure merit over age, which I guess matters when you're 16 and joining a top quantitative firm in NYC. The guy graduated college at 9, interned at Intel Labs at 10, SpaceX at 14... so meritocracy probably isn't just talk for him, it's his whole reality. Living independently in Manhattan now too, which is a flex compared to getting driven to the SpaceX office by his mom. The whole thing kind of shows how tech and finance worlds are starting to blur more. Kairan Quazi's move from rockets to Wall Street trading feels pretty emblematic of that shift. Curious to see what he builds next in the finance space.