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Nate Silver

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
833 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And they were kind of like a startup. And they would just hire smart nerds on the internet, right? And they're like, okay, this kind of seems cool. Why don't you actually code this up for us? And like made a proposal. And also the first system was for pitchers. And they're like, make one for hitters too. And for some reason they decided, how old was I at the time? Like 24.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And they were kind of like a startup. And they would just hire smart nerds on the internet, right? And they're like, okay, this kind of seems cool. Why don't you actually code this up for us? And like made a proposal. And also the first system was for pitchers. And they're like, make one for hitters too. And for some reason they decided, how old was I at the time? Like 24.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And they were kind of like a startup. And they would just hire smart nerds on the internet, right? And they're like, okay, this kind of seems cool. Why don't you actually code this up for us? And like made a proposal. And also the first system was for pitchers. And they're like, make one for hitters too. And for some reason they decided, how old was I at the time? Like 24.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You should also be the executive vice president of the company, right? It's a shitty job with a lot of bureaucracy and all these nerds you're trying to wrangle. I mean, they're great people. We've had some reunions. Yeah. They're not the most corporate refined culture.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You should also be the executive vice president of the company, right? It's a shitty job with a lot of bureaucracy and all these nerds you're trying to wrangle. I mean, they're great people. We've had some reunions. Yeah. They're not the most corporate refined culture.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

You should also be the executive vice president of the company, right? It's a shitty job with a lot of bureaucracy and all these nerds you're trying to wrangle. I mean, they're great people. We've had some reunions. Yeah. They're not the most corporate refined culture.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so you're doing a lot of problem solving that I'm utterly unqualified to do because this job doesn't pay very well to do management.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so you're doing a lot of problem solving that I'm utterly unqualified to do because this job doesn't pay very well to do management.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

And so you're doing a lot of problem solving that I'm utterly unqualified to do because this job doesn't pay very well to do management.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

They gave me equity in the company, which theoretically could have been worth something, probably wasn't worth that much in practice. But you're young and hopeful. One problem we always had is like this was the era of when Moneyball was penetrating into major league teams. Our stars would get picked off by the Red Sox or by the Cubs or by the Astros or whatever else.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

They gave me equity in the company, which theoretically could have been worth something, probably wasn't worth that much in practice. But you're young and hopeful. One problem we always had is like this was the era of when Moneyball was penetrating into major league teams. Our stars would get picked off by the Red Sox or by the Cubs or by the Astros or whatever else.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

They gave me equity in the company, which theoretically could have been worth something, probably wasn't worth that much in practice. But you're young and hopeful. One problem we always had is like this was the era of when Moneyball was penetrating into major league teams. Our stars would get picked off by the Red Sox or by the Cubs or by the Astros or whatever else.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I was spending most of my time on the baseball thing, but making most of my money on the poker thing. In 2006, the U.S. Congress is in kind of this panic. The Republicans are still in control. So they have a congressional page scandal where Mark Foley, this congressman, was messaging like 13-year-old pages about, hey, you know. why don't you send me some pictures?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I was spending most of my time on the baseball thing, but making most of my money on the poker thing. In 2006, the U.S. Congress is in kind of this panic. The Republicans are still in control. So they have a congressional page scandal where Mark Foley, this congressman, was messaging like 13-year-old pages about, hey, you know. why don't you send me some pictures?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

I was spending most of my time on the baseball thing, but making most of my money on the poker thing. In 2006, the U.S. Congress is in kind of this panic. The Republicans are still in control. So they have a congressional page scandal where Mark Foley, this congressman, was messaging like 13-year-old pages about, hey, you know. why don't you send me some pictures?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

So they're trying to do something to win themselves over with moral majority voters. The gay marriage thing is kind of played out. And so they go after online poker. The last day in Congress, 2006, they passed this bill. And I'm like, fuck these people, right? Oh, so you're angry. So I got more into politics because A, it compromised my livelihood. And B, you know, I'm like, these fuckers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

So they're trying to do something to win themselves over with moral majority voters. The gay marriage thing is kind of played out. And so they go after online poker. The last day in Congress, 2006, they passed this bill. And I'm like, fuck these people, right? Oh, so you're angry. So I got more into politics because A, it compromised my livelihood. And B, you know, I'm like, these fuckers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

So they're trying to do something to win themselves over with moral majority voters. The gay marriage thing is kind of played out. And so they go after online poker. The last day in Congress, 2006, they passed this bill. And I'm like, fuck these people, right? Oh, so you're angry. So I got more into politics because A, it compromised my livelihood. And B, you know, I'm like, these fuckers.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

But you never know who you're pissing off, Monica. It's true.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Nate Silver (statistician)

But you never know who you're pissing off, Monica. It's true.