====== Matt Wage ======

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**Matt Wage** is an American investor and practitioner of [[effective altruism]].

===== History =====

==== Education ====

Wage completed his undergraduate degree in philosophy at [[Princeton University]], graduating in 2012. He studied under [[Peter Singer]], who inspired him to pursue a career as a trader at [[Jane Street Capital]], which would allow him to practice [[effective altruism]].((Kristof, N. (2015, April 5). //Opinion | The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay.// The New York Times. http://archive.today/2015.05.01-080619/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-the-trader-who-donates-half-his-pay.html?_r=0))