Moneyball

“michael lewis's book moneyball which chronicled the data analytics revolution in baseball was my goto analogy to explain what i did ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“and non investing books as well though i mean things like money ball is a great look at how to fake a different approach or different analytic view ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 10s

“where billy bean at the oakland a's kind of took scouting and team building of baseball from this kind of scouts which was very qualitative to looking at very deep and esoteric statistics and constructing a team that way so he kind of quantified this area and so it it became money balled so money balls this notion of kind of quantifying and making very quantitative or analytical decisions as opposed to subjective decisions and so you went from madman style marketing to money ball ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 34s