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Molly Bloom

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“Very good at strategy seeing a problem, coming up with a solution, setting a goal. It has most of the time. Pretty slight odds figuring out how to get there. So I'd become very good at strategy. I'd become really good with people. I am so good at it that I became manipulative. And I was using those skills to manipulate people for my personal gain period. It's not a win-win.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not, I don't have judgments. Whether or not like you know the sports betting just became legal. Sports betting so many people in my indictment got indicted for sports betting. Now it's legal. Now if you live in New York, New Jersey, you can download an app connected to your bank account, watch a tennis game, pretty much everything that happens in that game is a better moment. You can also do that with a Charles Schwab account. I harbor no judgment for Whoever the companies are, the CEOs are. It matters who you are, right? For me? Once I realized that what I was doing was Using all my resources, all my skills, all my intelligence to push an activity that was ruining a lot of people's lives. That was an insult to my integrity. That was getting out of alignment with who I am and what I care about in the world.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About trying to be an entrepreneur and be gutsy and make money and, you know, sort of like source power, but do it in a way where I'm retaining who I am and integrity started to be exclusively about the money and the power and the status. And I started other games in the city and I did. Didn't care if somebody could afford it or not. And I was drinking a lot, and I was taking a lot of. pharmaceutical pills like add her all to stay up and Xanax to come down and You know, just started to live this life of very little self-analysis.”
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“And that this was just their form of entertainment. And what I started to see is that A vast majority of the players in these games, particularly the big games, were gambling addicts. Totally owned by the addiction of gambling. And I at some point. had to decide whether I was okay with playing my part in that. And my answer by my actions was clearly yes, but I paid a huge price for it inside. And that is the Sort of started to enable me to make other decisions that were not in line with my integrity, and that had a directly inverse proportional effect on how much I liked myself, how much I Self esteem, how much I believed in myself. The kind of person I started to be What had been up until this point?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The game was playing huge, they were also playing backgammon, they were also betting sports. Obviously, I can't guarantee $100 million. So I'm out after a certain point. And that was shortly before I got in trouble, but that game that I established, the combination, the big game in LA and the big game in New York, sort of joined together and became a billionaire's game and people over a year's time would lose a billion dollars. I mean, there's rumors that a couple billionaires went broke playing in that game, fully broke. And this here comes to a part of this story that Is I think really important. I started to see something I could not unsee anymore, which was in the beginning I just believed rich people could never lose their money, knew what they were doing.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not Illegal to stiff me or a game, it's illegal to stiff you need a gambling license in order to have those types of privileges. So you can go to jail in Vegas for stiffing. Gambling debt, but you can't go to jail for stiffing me. I gave you the money. It's a loan.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't have money anymore. Number two, there wasn't a game like it where you could play with some of your biggest heroes. I mean, there was so much business that got done at these games. The things that I saw created, you know, was mind-blowing. But also,”
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“Yeah, and there's a small one in. And so these games played so big. There was so much action. The blinds were so high that, you know, that initial buy-in would be gone with some people in the first 20 minutes. So then they'd have to come to me and say, I need another 250. And I would have to decide in that moment. Can they pay this? Are they good for the money? And so I would have to start to establish this relationship, this financial relationship with people based on trust a lot of times. But there are a couple things that kept me safe. Number one, to stiff this game was social reputational suicide. People would start to say, Oh,”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then the other Relevant numbers are what are the blinds, meaning what do you have to bet? Each round to To play the game.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, when you sit down to play at a poker game, there are a couple of Numbers that matter what's the buyin'? My LA game the buying to sit down and get chips and get a chair was fifty thousand dollars. It started out as ten, I raise it to fifty. The New York game was two hundred fifty thousand dollars.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I started this big game They're all just called Moll So it was a $250,000 buy in. And then this was the game that someone would ultimately end up losing $100 million in one night in.”
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“Because otherwise, like, these people would have to bring $5 million in cash every week. It's just not reasonable. It's not feasible.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would now MDB Inc. would now become the bank. Guarantee the games. Somebody stiffed, I would pay. Meaning they lost money in the game and then didn't pay the debt.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was wrong with the current games and where I could improve on that. I already knew I could bring the branding and the experience, which was meaningful. It truly was meaningful. But what I found is in these big games, in these New York games, a lot of the game runners were kind of running a Ponzi scheme. If they didn't get paid, they wouldn't pay out. They were playing in their own games, whether they were winning or losing would dictate the rake of that night and the rake is the illegal tax that most of the game runners were taking. And so it was a matter of treating people fairly. It was a matter of being trustworthy and consistent and having integrity. And then You know, the biggest thing I could do to instill that trust and to have integrity and to eradicate the fear was to become the bank.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There were many problems with my plan. First of all, I didn't really know anyone in New York City that sort of like billionaire Wall Street world is not so easy to penetrate. Secondly, it was 2008. So the economy and Wall Street had just been brought to its knees. In the most profound way, since probably the depression. And thirdly, there were some pretty scary characters running. Games in New York who'd been doing it for twenty years. But you know, it's testament to When you're obsessed with something, when the end, like you'll do anything, unfettered ambition, you'll do anything to get there. Things are possible for better or worse. I did research, and I interviewed poker players. And I found out who the right people were to talk to, and I found out what was wrong with the current system.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Feeling like I had been disposed of so effortlessly Something that I, you know, something stolen from me that I had. Curated and built, and karma before. And there is Some truth to that, but Did everything. Just I left money on my own money on the table to curate this incredible experience. I ran the games with ultimate integrity. I wasn't unkind to anybody I just felt It was really unfair. And so also. I was embarrassed. So I decided I was going to build the biggest poker game in the world. Five times, ten times bigger than the game in LA. And then I would go away Decided after doing some research that I would do it in New York City because it seemed like there are a lot of gamblers on Wall Street.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm thirty one at that point. So, you know, my parents said this is a great time for you to go back to school. You've saved all this money. You've learned all this, you know, you've gained all this information. You have this incredible network. And I said to them, you're absolutely right, but I have something that I need to prove to myself, at least. Because the plan was never to run poker games for the rest of my life. I don't think that's something that's sustainable. The lifestyle was not conducive for raising a family. Late nights, you know, crazy adrenaline, it was not something that I could imagine myself doing for the rest of my life. I knew I needed to walk away at some point. I knew I needed to parlay it into something that was less underground, less gray, but Know, I have to tell you there was something very thrilling about it.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm done. I'm never going to be able to make this much money again. I'm never going to be, I'm going to have to go join some, you know, I'm going to have to go work for someone else. I'm not going to be able to be my own boss. I'm not going to live in this fascinating, adventurous underworld where I get to, you know, pull the strings and move the chess pieces. And I have to go join the real world where I'm not extraordinary. I'm just telling what's going through my mind. Now, when I say these things, it's like, It is what it is, but”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He had colluded with the biggest. Wail in the game, a whale and a gambling context with a lot of money who's not very good, who's willing to lose a lot of money. This person had endless funds, and he had colluded with To have the game at his house, and that was where the money was for everyone And you asked me a question How do I feel about this person? Here's my answer. This was a really long time ago. And I've totally forgiven him.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I think that there's just conviction to that moment. Because I think we live in a day and age where a lot of people try to, not in a day and age, it's reality that a lot of people Try to misuse power. And I think it's really important to Know sort of dignity in the face of that and turning the offers down.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To get a seat to protect the integrity of the game and, you know, like paying the debts from my own bank account so that to make sure people got paid faster. I mean, there was, it wasn't, I wasn't serving drinks anymore. And so when he said to me, you're making too much money. You have the option of making less and I'll let you keep the game Look by this time I had become a strategic thinker, I had really been able to Get out of emotional decision making, but I do believe that there's a time and a place for emotional decision making. And so I knew that turning down that offer, there was a large, the odds were I was going to lose the game, but I knew that accepting that offer meant no autonomy for me, no freedom and no dignity. And you know what?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So he was really obsessed with the game and he was obsessed with the money that he was making and being the biggest winner. And the truth is at the end of the year the money that I was making by that point was millions. And he believed that was money that should be going into his pocket, even though by this point I was traveling the world recruiting players. I had a staff of 20 people. I handled all the logistics. I handled credit extension, collections. I was on the hook of someone didn't pay. I had a full business. I was paying my taxes, you know, there was so much work and sweat equity, and I had branded the game in this incredible way. Here are the areas that works. Here doesn't. Let me do some deeper research. And just really turning down cash and cars and free rolls from the pros.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dan showed up playing this kind of Ruse that he was just this clueless trust fund kid. Okay. And people bought it. And I sat there watching him and I'm like, this dude knows what he's doing, you know? And I said respect, right? Like you're hustling, I'm hustling. But you can't play in this game. You're going to take everyone's money. Bad for business. I wish you the best”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Say pathologically obsessed with this game, and structuring the game so that he could win all the time. So make sure that he was the best player in the game and that there were no other one better than he was.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To this day, I don't know why I went. I just went Made me go wait in this bedroom and he made me wait for a long time and I said to myself he's gonna kill me. I mean, I don't even know what's going to happen right now because he was a terrifying individual and a very powerful. Just to give you some context, when I started working for him, I used to always say to him, I'm really worried about your soul. Like, you're not a nice person, you know, and I saw him in a business context. And then later when I got to know him better, I saw him with his family and he was very kind. But he used to say to me all the time You're going to get trampled over. Like you need to toughen up. And so anyway, so he walks into the room and he has this terrifying look on his face and he looks at me and he goes, I'm proud of you. It was like graduation day”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The names of their kids, what they cared about in life, upgraded my playlist to Little Frank Sinatra, maybe I don't remember what it was, but it was better. Moved it out of this dungey basement, had it catered by the best restaurants in town up, you know, like the best liquors, Cuban cigars. I mean, I wanted people to walk into this room and feel like they were in Monaco or feel like they were James Bond for the night. And I really, as the games wore on, I really got into the science of sense science and temperature and humidity and food and all these things that elicit the feel of good chemicals. And then I invited everyone except for my boss. and at the end of the night the game went really late and then at five in the morning I got this text message from my boss and he said get over here”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And by this point, I had really kind of gotten into, like I had started to think about how I was going to build this game. I was keeping the books on everyone. I was recruiting players. I really had, I was doing much more than just waitressing. Thought about it, and I was like, I got to take my shot. I can't just. Go. I can't just let him take this. This opportunity is too important for me. So I had developed friendships and alliances. And so I plan a game. I moved it to a really luxurious location, and I hired a full staff of people and had them memorize everyone's favorite food order, drink order.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Terrified, nervous, scared, and still act with composure, these things that wouldn't quite present at a dinner table growing up with Jordan and Jeremy Bloom to culminate into an idea or, you know, sort of like that seat, all of a sudden I just started to feel in my flow, you know. But I was very loyal to my boss. And he is an interesting character. He was Slightly psychopathic? I just bided my time and I tried to figure out how I was going to do this. And then he made it quite simple for me because he called me and he said, you're focused too much on the game. I need you back in the office. I'm giving the game to someone else. Her name is going to be calling you.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is a funny story. Okay, so A couple months go by, right? And I'm like. I don't want to serve drinks in these rooms. I want to start my own games. I want to own these rooms. This was someone who felt powerless in the world. I could control these nine seats. You know, this thing that has so much control over these people that are so powerful, that was compelling. Money was compelling. I had this whole idea of how I would design the experience. That was compelling. And also I'd sort of learned in those six to eight months that I was an entrepreneur, I was a problem solver, I could think on my feet, I had metacognition, I could feel a certain way inside.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This what I want to do here is to connect with someone. You have that human to human feeling. You know, to, to be of service in some way to greater way to humanity. And by the way, that can also include yourself, you know? But I think it's about Disconnecting from the outcome, disconnecting from the transaction, and connecting as a human being.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So Effective presence EQ Active listening all of these things that you learn can absolutely be used for good or they can be used for bad. But I think something that is different about at least the brand of effective presence that I value is it's about your experience connecting with a human being. It's not about because I used to do that, right? The way I used to do things is I would do all my research on you and I'd come in here with a few talking points so that I could instantly connect on something with you and show you that you and I are the same. I don't really do that anymore, although I don't hate that strategy. But I think it just depends on how you use it. I think when you use it in a manipulative way, I think it's easier. Versus, if you kind of take a few breaths before you go into a room and you say,”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listened. I think we walk around armored with our egos. And I think that True connection happens when somebody when you're able to disarm somebody and they're able to disarm you and the egos slip away and it's just two people. So when you go in and you start listing off your accomplishments and painting yourself as this, you know, all of a sudden it's like competition up egoes up and then there's not true connection”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Train my mind to focus on what's unique about this person? What's truly unique about this person? And then getting to a point where you're vulnerable enough to say God, I'm really fascinated by this thing that you do, you know, whether it's at the poker table or in business or just in life and focusing in on the details and really getting outside of yourself and becoming curious and becoming a great listener, which by the way, you are an insanely great listener. And I just have found, probably like you have, that there is such incredible value in that, and that no matter how much somebody is celebrated or, you know, has a public following or whatever, it's so seldom that someone just sits down with them and listens, just gets in it with them.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I started to try to understand how to make people feel important, seen, heard, remembered, how to establish trust, how to establish authentic connection, because something that I realized by observing these games is that Everybody wanted something from these people. That was the nature of the relationship. And so, if I could figure out how to establish a real connection, you know, there's emotional intelligence, right, which usually has a focus on the outcome. How to win friends and influence people. Effective presence is more about being in the present with someone, focus on the connection, not the outcome. This is truly what I focused on for the first six to seven months is just creating a real connection with people, observing them and trying to”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then she reminded me of that quote by my Angelou that everyone loves and loves to quote, which is people are going to forget what you said and what you did, but they're never going to forget the way you made them feel. And I thought about that, and it's so true. And I guess I had this suspicion that these people with their power and their success and their access different from the rest of us, that they believed that they were worthy, you know, that they didn't have harbor that secret fear that they weren't good enough. And what I found unequivocably is that that wasn't true, and that many times someone at that level is even more convinced or needs even more. Validation”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just felt like maybe I was disposable. Like maybe they would just bring in another woman at some point to serve drinks. You know, I just didn't. I just didn't want to be disposable. I wanted to find some reason. You be To be valuable in that room and to be able to come back. And I was talking to my mom so much about everything that I hoped to gain and where my mind was going with this opportunity. And, you know, then I said to her, but mom, I've no idea how to bring value to this room. These people have everything. As she said something that was really profound to me, she said, um, Know maybe instead of thinking about all the things you want to get, you could think about what you could give.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Effective presence is the science of how you make people feel. Everybody has their own emotional footprint that they leave on the world. And there are really marked things you can do to have either positive or negative effective presence or neutral, which is also not great. So I remember talking to my mom and I remember saying. Don't even understand how compelling this is. I want to stay in this room more than anything, but I don't know how I could ever confer value in this room.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wanted to learn the rules of the game, the vernacular. I didn't want to seem like a novice. And then I started to try to figure out. How do I stay in this room? And This is where one of the places where effective presence became a really big tool.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then I remember at the end of the night because people were tipping with chips. It wasn't straight cash. I remember making three thousand dollars for refilling some drinks. And so two things became really apparent to me. One, this was incredible access to a network of people that I don't know if I would have ever had access to and to learn from people at this age of twenty three when I didn't know who I was or who I wanted to be. And number two, that there was something that happened when there was a token or a chip was the economic system that made people very liberal. I'd worked as a wage. I was a waitressing everywhere. I'd hustle my butt off for a couple hundred dollars a night. All of a sudden the chip is involved and it's not real money. I just became obsessed and so I learned about poker.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that first game, you know, I'm Just shell shocked, essentially, and also really mortified about the playlist and the cheeseplate from Gelson's, you know. But man am I intrigued, you know, getting to be twenty three years old, getting to be a fly on the wall in this room. Where these conversations are open and candid and you are talking. I'm like you, I've always been fascinated in psychology. I've always been an information data junkie. I love to learn. I love to observe. And so this was as compelling as it could be.”
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“Legal I when I started running the games, I hired defense attorneys and had them analyze the federal statutes and to help me figure out a way to do it legally because in the early days I wouldn't have done it illegally. That was an evolution, replied.”
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“And then, you know, but apart from the actors, it was also the head of some of the biggest investment banks in the world and the head of some of the biggest movie studios and politicians who were household names and people in the tech world that were about to take their companies public. I mean, it was. It was unbelievable.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, he came in the office one day and he said, and there are always zany things to sort of like thrown at me. And he said Need you to serve drinks at my poker game tomorrow night. I tell this story because it's just So, indicative of the naivete and where I was, I remember. Googling what kind of music do pick poker players like to listen to and what do they eat? And I proceeded to make this incredibly embarrassing playlist with songs like The Gambler on it, you know, and got this cheese plate and showed up for this very fancy poker game in Hollywood with Celebrities and there's some names that of people that have already talked about being in the games and those are the names that I don't mind. Naming just to give context it was Ben Affleck and Toby Maguire and Leo DiCaprio.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I got a job. I had to get a job the day I got here. And I went to this. Restaurant in Beverly Hills. Went to got a job for a couple days, it was terrible. And then I went to this other restaurant and kind of lied and said, because no one else was hiring in this Beverly Hills area. And it was a fine dining establishment and I lied and said that I had fine dining experience. I got fired a couple weeks later. My boss said you're the worst waitress we've ever seen and you've ruined like thousands of dollars of bottles of wine trying to open them. He said, but Know people seem to take to you, and you're a hard worker, so why don't you come work for our real estate development company? As my executive assistant.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted to go to Harvard. I didn't even end up going at all or even finishing my last semester and a half at school because I just couldn't. Couldn't muster the energy and ambition it took to go. All these things, I just had I had hit a wall, and I think I was really questioning Conventionality of it all, so I ended up like not applying to law schools and just saying, I just need a year. And The closest place that was warm on the ocean from Colorado in a straight line was California.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think I cultivated much self esteem. I don't think I knew who I was. And I don't think that I believed I was inherently worthy. I believed that I had to achieve something big, huge, extraordinary, worldly in order to Do then feel a little Relief from that existential ache that followed me around my whole life, you know?”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hard to know what you mean at 18 years old, but In my mind you need clear proof and evidence that you are extraordinary by these accomplishments and my brothers had already started to make that happen and I Hehehe Because one day at the dinner table, My dad said to me Like to argue and read a lot? Maybe you should go to law school. And then I started to kind of read books about the law and fiction a lot. I mean, I loved stories. And then started to think about getting paid to argue for a living and all the glory that could come from that if you're fighting for justice or you're fighting to save somebody who's innocent, the sort of high points, the aspirational points of what it would be like to be a lawyer in a movie or a book.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She insisted on kindness and integrity so there was this whole ecosystem of extraordinary and I didn't know how I fit into that at all. And I desperately wanted a seat at that table. And probably during the times that we were raised, there were these ideas of what success looked like and how you get there. And it was. Genius and talent and specific skill set. But I knew that I had to be successful, and this is not hyperbolic. I literally did not want to live. I mean, I remember when I was applying to law school, I said to my dad, if I don't get into an Ivy League Law School, I don't know how. Want to live, you know, and”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going right in. I think it almost always starts with the family. In childhood, and I am from a family of, you know, my two little brothers are incredible humans, but like the craziest overachievers you could ever imagine. And then I have these two incredible parents who were very powerful influences in our lives. My dad stood on this platform of you cultivate discipline and if you have a fear you walk through it and you learn how to suffer constructively for your dreams, for your goals. And then my mom, you know, she was this.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, this is where the science of how you make people feel became a really big tool. And I would memorize people's lives, the names of their kids, what they cared about, favorite food order, drink order. These things can absolutely be used for good, but I just became obsessed. What had been about trying to be an entrepreneur and be gutsy started to be exclusively about the money and the power. But I paid a huge price for it. I started to partner with people that were not the right people to partner with. In the middle of the night, I get arrested by 17 FBI agents, machine guns. They put me in handcuffs and they put this piece of paper in front of me that says the United States of America versus Molly Bloom.”
2023-08-17 · The Diary of a CEO · How I Manipulated The World's Richest Men: “They Lost $100 Million In One Night!” - Molly Bloom (Molly's Game) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT