This chapter explores the habits of successful risk-takers, highlighting the importance of a decisive 'raise or fold' attitude. It encourages listeners to adopt an active decision-making approach to seize opportunities, further supplemented by a book recommendation for deeper insights.
What can we learn from the people who put everything on the line? Nate Silver talked to just about every type of gambler – poker players, venture capitalists, crypto traders – to find out.
Silver joins Ricky Mulvey for a conversation about expected value, Presidential polling, and risk. They also discuss:
- Why Adam Neumann keeps getting money.
- DraftKings’s surcharge for winning bets.
- Why bubbles are bigger in meme-ified worlds.
Companies mentioned: DKNG, MSFT
Host: Ricky Mulvey
Guest: Nate Silver
Producer: Mary Long
Engineer: Dez Jones, Chace Pryzlepa
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