Molly's Game

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Keith Rabois speaks positively about Molly's Game, praising both the movie itself and Molly Bloom's self-awareness about what drove her success. He frames her journey as instructive and interesting to learn from, suggesting the podcast conversation with her will be worthwhile.

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Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera—the true story of "Hollywood’s poker princess" who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all. Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world for the Hollywood elite and Wall Street titans—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen—she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table.

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  Keith Rabois👍 Recommends

  …discussing molly bloom's memoir and the film adaptation of her story

  “You probably know her from the movie Molly's Game, which we'll hear a little bit about today. But Molly's also, I think, got an amazing sense of what made her successful, and the journey she's been through, I think, is a really interesting one to learn from.”

  All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — Molly's Game Uncensored: The Truth Behind the World's Most Infamous Poker Gameat 01:23

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