114 The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2020-03-09
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“This is, this works for high stakes poker, this works for investing, this works for building a business, making a product, selling…”
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Focus
“He just starts focusing on fighting, starts focusing on training, starts focusing on being a good person, staying out of trouble, doing…”
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People
“Now, that means somebody-- He's essentially saying, "I'm gonna play a team of professional poker players." But poker players are not used…”
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Persistence
“For three years, Beal, Beal Aerospace persevered over enormous obstacles.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“With the amount of time he spent deliberating before acting, giving away his inf- giving away information, he developed a way to…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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