CR 007: Pete Muller on the Importance of Embracing Dualities
The singer-songwriter discusses achieving success in both finance and the arts, his passion for music, and his latest album, “More Time.”
Pete Muller might be the only Forbes-profiled hedge fund manager to have busked in the New York City subway. After earning a mathematics degree from Princeton, Muller founded the asset management company PDT Partners in 1993. Over the past three decades, the company has become enormously profitable, leading Forbes to include Muller in its list of the Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers of 2019. Still, Muller, a self-described “word nerd,” isn’t content to stay in one lane. Even as he worked to transform Wall Street, he has simultaneously pursued a career in music—performing in train stations and coffee shops, writing songs, opening for artists such as Joan Osborne and John Oates, and releasing critically acclaimed albums. In addition, he also pens a monthly music-themed crossword puzzle for the Washington Post and engages in music philanthropy. (In 2017 he partnered with the Berklee School of Music and the City of New York to revitalize the legenda…
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