222 Ed Thorp (My personal blueprint) — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2021-12-20
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“A guy locally famous from winning, like, local bodybuild- bu- bodybuilding, um, competitions in Austria.”
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Focus
“And the reading r- the reason I wanna bring this to your attention is 'cause this is a first example of E-…”
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People
“He essentially hired these people, say, "Hey, teach me how everybody's cheating." And these people also have relationships with the regulatory body.”
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Persistence
“I'm-- If I'm not mistaken, uh, this-- there was like four years.”
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Capital
“And a large part of this, the fact that he, he, he was one of the most successful investors of all time…”
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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