309: Daryl Morey On Using Data To Make Decisions

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Daryl Morey is the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the NBA. He is a strong proponent of analytical methods, having created the true shooting percentage statistic, and co-founded the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In this conversation, we discuss the latest NBA update, how the Rockets use advanced analytics to make decisions, why Daryl spends so much time supporting civil liberties, what he thinks of SpaceX, and why he has been a proponent of Bitcoin since 2011. =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.3	podcast. Simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Daryl Morey is the general
0:12.2	manager of Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association. He's a strong proponent of
0:17.6	analytical methods, having created the true shooting percentage statistic, and co-founded the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
0:26.0	In this conversation, we discussed the latest NBA update, how the rockets use advanced
0:31.1	analytics to make decisions, why Darrell spends so much time supporting civil liberties, what
0:36.7	he thinks of SpaceX and other
0:38.1	technologies, and why he has been a proponent of Bitcoin since 2011.
0:44.1	I really enjoyed this conversation with Daryl, and I hope you do as well.
0:48.6	Don't forget that I write a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business technology
0:52.8	and finance.
0:53.8	I break down complex topics into easy to understand language
0:57.1	while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry.
1:00.7	You can subscribe at pompletter.com.
1:04.2	Again, pompletter.com or go into the description of this episode
1:08.3	and you can click on the link there.
1:10.3	All right, let's get into this episode with Daryl.
1:12.1	I hope you guys liked this one.
1:14.4	Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
1:17.6	All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions
1:22.1	and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management.
1:26.7	You should not treat any opinion
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