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Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast.

Now, we're presented by Major Dill in Media. Thank you, Yolotango, as always, for the intro music.

Today, we have, as our guest, Sophie Picard, author of Loanshots.

How to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and transform industries.

One of those industries that we go deep into on this podcast is the restaurant industry.

I don't know how much Sophie thought you were going to be talking about it, but I wanted to

pick his brain and get his opinion and see if he had any insights because a lot of the

patterns that he talks about in Loanshots, I feel like you can extrapolate and look at just

about any kind of organization. I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd be studying Pan Am and

American Airlines back in the deregulation of the airline industry because I think there are

a tremendous amount of similarities between independent restaurants and fast food,

slash companies that are publicly traded. There are a tremendous amount of things we can study.

And Sophie is on a short list of some of the very smartest people we've ever had on this podcast.

A trained physicist, he has worked as a consultant. He's been the CEO of a biotech company,

and now a best-selling author. He's just one of those individuals that is always curious about

how to make the world a better place and how to improve things specifically for leadership and

organizations. I can't recommend Loanshots enough for our listeners, regardless of whatever industry

you're in, particularly restaurants. I think you can glean a lot. There, I said that all.

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