Millionaire hedge fund CEO says he mainly hires people with no background in finance and once hiked a worker’s pay so he could call him at 1 a.m.

• A hedge fund boss said he mainly hires people with no background in finance.

• Peter Brown also said he once offered a worker a pay rise in the early morning hours.

• Brown discussed his unusual hiring and retention strategies on a Goldman Sachs podcast.

The CEO of New York-based investment management firm Renaissance Technologies has said that when it came to hiring, he almost exclusively employed people with no…