Linn: Reaping years of experience

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Gordon Linn started working in the cash grain business in Des Moines, Iowa and figured he would return there. But after coming to Chicago in the early 1970s to hedge for Lincoln Commodities, he found a new home. "I started a trading subsidiary for a large grain company," Linn says. "I never made it back because I liked the action, I liked the challenge of the markets." He came at the right time, at the onset of the 1970s commodity boom. "Immediately we had the Russian markets, crazy volume, crazy price action. Here I was a young naive farm boy straight out of the cash grain business trying to cope with a new industry, so I had to learn all the little things like doing back office, calling people for margin, balancing books and seg reports and all the rest of it. The business got so busy in such a hurry that I couldn't make it back to Des Moines and have been in Chicago ever since," Linn says.