The MIT Blackjack team basically was a hot house for future entrepreneurs. These are the computer science people who wanted to take risk and be entrepreneurial, he says. "These are all personal characteristics conducive to doing really well"
What does it take to count cards? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore blackjack, quantitative thinking, and the journey from MIT blackjack player to angel investor with Semyon Dukach, Managing Partner at One Way Ventures.
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