809: How to Make Wise Decisions using Quantitative Intuition with Paul Magnone
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Paul Saffo: Could you perhaps give us a cool story or a case study of a professional who did some great work with both intuition and information to come up with some rock and break through decisions? Well, I don't know if this was a rocking breakthrough decision, but I will tell a personal story about when I was working for a Fortune 20, maybe Fortune 50 company. We were investigating whether to work with a heavily backed startup in Silicon Valley. They kept on telling us, you know what? You're going to have a wildly profitable business if you base your business on our new technology. So either they had some magic or there was something that was wrong. And we ultimately wound
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