Brian Klaas | How To Think About An Unlimited Future Of Possibilities - Flukes, Chance, Randomness & Nassim Taleb
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Harry Potter's Fluke
- Brian Klaas tells the story of how Harry Potter was bought by Bloomsbury Publishing after being rejected 16 times.
- The publisher's daughter read the manuscript overnight and urged her father to buy it.
- He paid £2,500 for the rights, which became one of the best investments ever.
- Other publishers weren't necessarily stupid, but they may have thought witchcraft wasn't a big market.
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