Ari Levy
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first heard Feb 2026
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What made you love probabilities from an early age?
Sports statistics, I would say, number one.
To simulate baseball seasons when I was really little on the Apple IIe computer on a very...
early video game that didn't you know was uh pretty much mostly statistics and not not actually like interacting in the game as like a batter or pitcher but just hitting SB if you're trying to steal a base but I would simulate baseball seasons between you know
You could have the 1927 Yankees play the 1955 Giants and have Willie Mays play against Babe Ruth.
And so I was like, just love that concept and trying to think about advanced statistics at a young age and just games of strategy, played a lot of cards, try to figure out how to win things, good risk adjusted, asymmetric calculated bets effectively.
I took a course my freshman year at Stanford.
This would have been 1997, called Math and Sports.
That was my favorite class I ever took.
Professor Tom Cover at Stanford taught this freshman seminar.
Small group of 15 like-minded folks just thinking about this same kind of thing.
you know, game theory, probability theory in both sports, which was the name of the class, but also the deck of cards.
And Professor Cover had his own blackjack team in the 70s and just great stories.
Fascinating statistics professor.
And a couple of us from the class, Fred Brad Griffith, who founded
game time, uh, which is, um, uh, ticketing, the online ticketing platform.
And I just took a real liking to it.
Uh, we were, we were already friends living in the same freshman dorm and constantly we're quizzing each other on the blackjack statistics.
And so we just got excited about how we could optimize that, that game.
And in, um, in, in cards, it's a, there's a known quantity known set of, you know, there's four suits and, uh,
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