Nassim Taleb
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 4, 2019 by Steve Kuhn · across every show →
Everything said about Nassim Taleb, oldest first
Feb 4, 2019 positive
Kuhn: Income sharing agreements create a superior education model with skin in the game
“And since these companies have skin in the game, To take something from our friend Nassim Taleb. If they're not adding value to the students, they don't get paid. If they take a person making 40,000 dollars a year and only make 40,000 dollars a year after thei…”
Oct 7, 2019 negative
Antitrust Regulators Are Captured by Retrospective Bribes From Law Firms
“What they're ultimately doing is, it's what Nassim Taleb called the retrospective bribe, where it's not like someone's giving them a suitcase of cash, but rather they're very aware and conscious that if they're going to go back to their law firm, they want to …”
Feb 4, 2021 negative
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…”