| Notes |
Amos B. Hostetter Sr., one of the initial investors in his son’s cable television company, helped hone the skills of a generation of commodity traders and hedge fund managers as a founding director of Commodities Corp.
Fairly certain that he would never escape his father’s shadow if he continued in commodities, Hostetter turned his attention to creating Continental Cablevision. Weymar, on the other hand,
had found his calling. He created Commodities Corp., and Amos Hostetter Sr. served as one of his founding directors. The trading firm built one of the most successful track records in the commodities field, based largely on the trading methods of the elder Hostetter. Some of the most successful multibillion-dollar hedge fund managers of the modern era, including Bruce Kovner, Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon, Mike Marcus, and Jim Simons, got their start at Commodities Corp.2 |