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In 2014, Forbes ranked him as the 134th richest American, at $3.8 billion. One of his hires was Jeff Bezos, who, while researching business opportunities in 1994 for Shaw, got the idea for an online bookstore and left to start a company called Amazon.com. At $30 billion in 2014, Bezos was the fifteenth richest American.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Alexander Hughes
@alexanderhughes
His doctor explains that one part of Alex’s brain is underactive compared to those of most people, a tiny structure called the amygdala. The amygdala is the ‘threat detector’, responsible for generating emotions that help us survive – emotions like fear. People who have a defect in their amygdala don’t feel any fear at all, not with public
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Alex Pope
@allyp456
Joel Connolly
@joelc
California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Josh
@bessent
John’s dad would sometimes say, “If you don’t open your mouth, then no one will know you’re stupid.” John and I had learned on our own that, similarly, if you don’t get caught, then no one will know you’re a troublemaker.