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Infopunk #3 – Poker Pros, Great Investors and Software Conglomerates
If you talk to Vanessa Selbst or Liv Boeree, these girls are really brilliant. I mean there are obviously plenty of very bright men as well. But somehow we have a really impressive crop of female players.”
from The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
- Solana has turned out to be one of my most successful investments, generating a 4,000X return. And yet things I now find normal—dealing with pseudonyms, betting on founders halfway across the world who don’t want to give investors any control—are still baffling to my colleagues who came up during the Web 2.0 boom.
from Web 2.0 Investors Aren’t Cut Out for the Web3 World by Edith Yeung
Timothy Shih added
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- Portnoy, for instance, has gone from Boston sports, to all sports, to sports betting, to pizza, to the stock market. His success has taken many forms over the last 17 years. What this means for myself and everyone else in the early innings of a newsletter project is that whatever we’re doing right now will eventually have to be reinvented on the fl... See more
from The passion of the posts by Myles Udland
sari added
There are the more legitimate booths, too. D&B Poker, a publisher of poker books, is advertising a new book by Chris Moorman, about his path to becoming “the most successful online poker player of all time.” A huge cardboard cutout of what I assume is Moorman himself stands next to a display of books.
from The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
- "We help companies build, survive, and scale, but one of the main components of my job is understanding how and when the world is going to change. Our portfolio is a collage of various futures that we believe in, and our capital and expertise are assets to hopefully pull these futures forward."
from Markets, Markets, and Markets by Kyle Harrison
Juan Orbea added
