What was the probability that one of JaneStreet’s alumni, Sam Bankman Fried, would use JaneStreet’s brand name to build up credibility and then pull off the biggest ponzi scheme in human history?
It's telling that Jane Street stayed away from the whole mess despite the connection.
They only decided to “step back” now that regulators are bringing the hammer down
This wasn’t an innocent bystander firm. They were complicit, either directly or indirectly
How is that different from bragging that you finished MIT, Harvard, Oxford, you worked at Google or that your startup is in YC.
JS aren't future tellers when it comes to their employees' lives after they leave JS, and JS has no control over those employees once they depart either.