Moneyball
topic on 14 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 68 times in 42 episodes since 2013
Capital Allocators 26 
Top Founders 11 
the a16z Podcast 6 
Acquired 5 
20VC 5 
Founders 3 
Startups For the Rest of Us 2 
BigDeal 2 
My First Million 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
All-In 1
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Capital Allocators 26Top Founders 11the a16z Podcast 620VC 5Acquired 5Founders 3the MAD Podcast 2My First Million 26 more shows
2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Michael Mauboussin - Pattern Recognition and Public Markets (EP.370)
- Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ep. #19 | WTF is “Making it” in an Offbeat Career? Nikhil Kamath Ft. Kriti Sanon, Badshah & KL Rahul · Nikhil Kamath
- The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
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2023 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Ryan Holiday Reveals How Much Best Selling Authors Make, Crazy Peter Thiel Stories & More (#370)
- The Path to a Billion Dollars: How to Create Multi-Revenue Streams with Bill.com CRO Tom Clayton
- Mozart Helps You Clean Your Data, $0 to $750k ARR in 12 Months, $6m Seed
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2021 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- BONUS – Michael Mauboussin on the Decision Education Podcast
- Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More · Acquired
- Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- MFM #171: How to Generate Millions from Paid Events (Bootstrapped)
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2020 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- Marko Papic – Geopolitical Alpha at Clocktower Group (Capital Allocators, EP.161)
- Wavve Hits 9k For Audio Video Tool, $70k Monthly Profits!
- 1735 Smarter to Buy vs Build, He bought Company for $10m, Now doing $20m in ARR 3 years later
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2019 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Tech and Entertainment in the 'Era of Mass Customization'
- a16z Podcast | Breaking the Barriers of Human Potential
- a16z Podcast | Andre Iguodala Knows Tech -- And Why the Warriors Won't Be Stopped
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
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2018 16 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
- Clare Flynn Levy and Cameron Hight - Moneyball for Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.43)
- 961 How He Sells Commercial Real Estate Data to PE Firms for $5m+ in ARR
- Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- 1153 We just passed $4m in ARR, considering a raise for CPG CRM tool
- 1039 The Argument For Utility Based SaaS Pricing, $.85 Per Booked Hour, 18.4 Million Booked Hours
- 20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- 1003 With $150m Raised, He's Sold 3m "Weird" Domain Names
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2017 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- Mario Therrien – The Canadian Pension Model (Capital Allocators, EP.12)
- 814: My Hero: $3m+ In Revenue in SF, She's Resisted Funding While Helping Companies Digitally Transform
- 20VC: Founders Fund's Chief Scientist on Why AI Is Mostly A Scam, Why The Value of Large Datasets Is Mostly Overplayed & The Societal Effects of 4m Truck Drivers Being Unemployed with Aaron Vandevender
- André Perold – Academic Practitioner (Capital Allocators, EP.02)
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2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
2013 1 mention in 1 episode
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4 statements about Moneyball, every show
Schwimer: Process Metrics Predict MLB Success Better Than Standard Moneyball Statistics
“The basic money ball stuff, exactly. And it really didn't matter in the minor leagues in terms of predicting major league success. And what I had to, the lesson I had to learn was it's not, the results are not predictive to future results. It's actually the pr…”
Reiter: Astros combined qualitative human scouting with quantitative performance analytics
“The Astros recognize that humans can detect things especially in players that numbers can't describe, that there aren't numbers for, and the trick is to properly process those observations and incorporate them with the performance data to kind of get the best …”
Perold: Moneyball is Michael Lewis's most profound book
“The one I think is most profound is Moneyball. I think it's not that recent, but it's an example of how he wrote about applying Techniques of investing to talent management and finding great players on a team, and it extends to so many aspects of life.”