Ed Thorpe

2 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2024 by Sam Parr · across every show →

Everything said about Ed Thorpe, oldest first

Jun 28, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Parr: Ed Thorp Launched First Hedge Fund and Made $800 Million
“And he parlays all of this learning and all this experience into creating the world's first hedge fund. And becoming one of the first quants and he knocks it out the park. The guy kills that. I think he made something like eight hundred million dollars. And th…”
Sam Parr Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 11:14 Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman
May 5, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Mack: Shannon and Thorp built shoe computer yielding 33% roulette edge
“Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe, before the first ever mobile computer, they created the first ever mobile computer that they had in their shoe that would look at the, as the ball hit based off the probability, and they hacked roulette by, managed to outcompete t…”
George Mack May 5, 2025 ▶ 39:41 The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
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