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Brian KoppelmanBrian Koppelman

Successful creators must ignore the 'safe middle' and focus on what they find fascinating

Executives in any endeavor and any business will always try to get the safe middle. But if you're a creator, you have to ignore the safe middle and you have to be going for what's really fascinating to you... if you can make that stuff compelling enough then people will hang in.

This is a subjective professional philosophy.

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Duke has already lost the last game of the year

Duke has already lost the last game of the year, guys. I said it. Sorry. It already happened.

The 2020 NCAA Tournament was cancelled shortly after this episode due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so Duke technically didn't lose another game that season.
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Feb 21, 2020
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Jameis Winston is a future Hall of Famer because he throws so many interceptions to learn from

If you learn more from a loss and interception than you do from throwing a touchdown or winning a game like [Jameis Winston] is going to be—that's why he's a future Hall of Famer. He's just storing up all the knowledge right now.

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Winston did not become a Hall of Fame caliber player; his career remained marked by turnovers and backup roles.
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Feb 21, 2020
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More football is always better

I'm technically in favor of this [expanding the schedule] because it's more football and more football equals better.

This is a subjective value judgment on the quality of the NFL product.

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Civil damages against Robinhood for breaking user agreements could be enormous

If Robinhood shut down and stopped you from being able to trade, in violation of the user agreement you signed, I think the damages against them in a civil case are fucking extraordinary, enormous damages.

Robinhood faced over 50 class-action lawsuits. While many were dismissed or settled for smaller amounts than 'enormous', they did pay a $70 million fine to FINRA (the largest ever at the time).
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George Clooney is a college-level athlete

So Clooney's very, very good. He's college-level athlete. Full college level... [Clooney] was a great baseball player, like college-level baseball recruited for baseball and he really knows how basketball works. Like he knows how to do a pick-and-roll. He understands basketball.

Clooney actually tried out for the Cincinnati Reds in 1977, though he didn't make the team. He has a reputation as a very high-level amateur athlete.
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Woody Harrelson has legitimate basketball hops

I thought I could beat Woody... and he destroyed me, man. He was up at the hoop. He could really get right to the hoop... Woody has hops. Yes.

Harrelson is well-known in the industry for being a legitimate basketball player who often wins celebrity games.

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