Billy Bean had his own idea about where to find future major league baseball players. He flirted with the idea of firing all the scouts and just drafting the kids straight from Paul's laptop. They went looking for CEOs who were sort of oddly misshapen in the same way their baseball players were because they figured if that person got to be a CEO it was because they actually were good at running a company, not because they looked the part.
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.