Alfred Winslow Jones — If you are keen on finance and the financial markets and do not know his name, you should. He is the grandfather of the modern-day financial titans known as hedge funds. The European-American sociologist/philanthropist from the mid-nineteenth century spent his youthful years running secret missions for an anti-Nazi group and drinking whiskey with Ernest Hemingway (Mallaby, 2010). The person who paved the way for an industry that controls an estimated $5.13 trillion would have likely spent his formative years working under financial moguls at places such as JP Morgan Chase or Merrill Lynch (Statista, 2023). It is logical to think that lacking a typical finance background would be a limitation; however, Jones used his unique background to his advantage. His years spent fighting Nazism and working undercover taught him how to be creative and escape boundaries, leading him to create the structure for arguably the most powerful and successful investment vehicles known today.