Before founding WorldQuant, Igor Tulchinsky worked more than 20 different jobs—writing hospital software, doing research at AT&T Bell Labs, and even building video games—and he later applied that same restless curiosity to investing by building millions of ideas at once, searching for talent in overlooked places far from major finance hubs, and even using a coin flip not to decide but to notice his true preference as it spun in the air. He also connects his investing worldview to things like history, chess, and art, seeing patterns and strategy everywhere, and recently extended this thinking into an idea he calls Quant Nation, which imagines using shared data and forecasting tools to help entire societies plan ahead.