David Hornik

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392 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 25 Feb

David Hornik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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That'd be a lot of years.

If you miss the one in 10, then you are a failed venture investor.

And if you get two in 10, you're an extraordinary venture investor.

That's an absurdity.

My brother was on the MIT blackjack team.

Right.

So they would they were card counters.

They went to play blackjack and you'd sit and count count until the count was up.

And then you'd sit down and you'd bet big for a period of time.

And, you know, it shifted the odds.

It used to be, you know, 51 percent in favor of the house.

And by counting, it was 51 percent in favor of the team.

And there were weekends that they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because there's still luck involved.

I agree with all of it, which was lucky because I met Adam because of that article.

He read the article.

He was working on this book.

trying to determine scientifically who were more successful, people who were givers or people who were takers.

And he had read the article that I had written, and he said, do you mind, can we talk about it?

And he and I got on the phone.

It was supposed to be an hour.

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