People who end up here are part of a special breed of techno-innovators - VC-backed startup founders, operators, and investors - who all share similar traits.
🧮 Believe that startups are games:
📊 Think in probabilities & are statistically literate
⚡ Min-max almost everything they touch in life - including the game of startups.
We believe this archetype is among the highest-impact agents in the technology landscape.
- Demis Hassabis (DeepMind, Founder): chess/go/poker player (3x Pentamind winner)
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/Meta, Founder): poker player (regular WSOP entries)
- Bill Gates (Microsoft, Founder): bridge player (among the top Bridge player in the US)
- Steve Wojzniak (Apple, Founder): Tetris player (competitive; world's best player on Nintendo Tetris - still plays to this day)
- Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn, Founder): Catan player (loved it so much that he wrote a book about it)
