Fooled By Randomness
product on 6 shows · 1 statements across 1 episodes · said 19 times in 14 episodes since 2015
20VC 9 
Top Founders 5 
Capital Allocators 2 
Acquired 1 
My First Million 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2021 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- 20VC: Robinhood Founder Vlad Tenev on His Biggest Lessons Managing Through A Crisis, The Events of The Congressional Committee, Raising $2.4Bn Fast and Why It Was Necessary & Why It Is Ludicrous To Suggest Robinhood Put The Business Ahead of it's Customer
- BONUS – Michael Mauboussin on the Decision Education Podcast
- Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
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2020 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
- Workable Hits $30m Run Rate, Burning $10m, Series C Valuation "Less Than $250m"
- 20VC: Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks on The Most Important Skill An Investor Can Have, The Right Way To Think About Price Sensitivity & Where Are We At Today; Take More Risk or Less?
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2018 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR
- 20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- 20VC: Why Virtually All Companies Hire The Wrong Way, Why EdTech Is The Most Brutal Market & How To Scale Your Sales Team for Engineering Founders with Mike Sliagadze, Founder & CEO @ Top Hat
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode
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Mauboussin: Taleb Fell Short Providing Frameworks to Measure Luck's Contribution
“I think Taleb's point, which of course is, is correct, is that we tend to underestimate the role of randomness or luck in, in the outcomes that we observe. But he, I think, came up short in actually giving people frameworks to think about the actual contributi…”