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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Oct. 8, 2022 • 1:12 PM • 537 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Oct. 8, 2022 • 1:12 PM • 537 days ago
In her new book ‘Quit,' Annie Duke shares that the best poker players only play 25% of the hands they are dealt, whereas others play 50%. Ms. Duke talks with Stewart Butterfield, the founder of a few startups, most recently Slack (which is an acronym, which I didn’t know). Slack wouldn’t have been born if Mr. Butterfield didn’t drop a video game company to start Slack. Likewise for Twitter which was born out of the failed blogging company Odeo. Ms...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 30, 2022 • 12:47 PM • 637 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 30, 2022 • 12:47 PM • 637 days ago
The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect.  List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)

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