In reverse chron order:
Professionally,
· Development at CrunchBase
· Development at TechCrunch and CrunchBase
· Founded (and continue to run) ekCoffee, a place to meet single Indian professionals
· Created iJiny, a short classifieds service (now defunct)
· Qualcomm
· UC Santa Barbara
· Univ of Pune, India
Personally,
· San Francisco
· San Diego
· Santa Barbara
· India
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wow man, i have spent countless hours thinking abt exactly the same parallel between blackjack and risk taking. let me spoil your straight line thinking:
1. So basically there are two types of gamblers: the ones who believe that all events are random and the ones who believe that events are not random. you can easily differentiate the two on a roulette table – after a series of 5 reds on the table, the one betting on red is the second category (he tinks something is not random and hence red is showing up more often) and the one betting on black is the first category (he thinks black is ‘due’ by the simple law of probability, that if u toss a coin a million times, roughly half of the times u will get heads. if u toss it 10 million times, … almost half of the times. well, if you toss infinite times, exactly half of the times u will get red.)
ok, back to your thinking: your doubling down just represents a belief: that is it. the question, is one of choice. “when u have a better hand than the dealer” is when you think if doubling up. in life, you will never know that. that is the difference. no amount of analysis and skill building will help you “know” you have a better hand.