![]() ![]() Then Fuji said, “How about we play Acey Deucy?” I would sometimes mess up because I was new to it, but they were nice about helping me avoid obvious mistakes.Īfter we had played a bunch of hands, everyone was up or down a couple of dollars. They taught me how to play five card stud, Texas Hold ‘Em, and then a bunch of variations that I can’t remember now, usually with different cards being wild or high. The poker games were nickel and quarter ante. I didn’t know how to play poker, but one time Sam couldn’t make it and they invited me to take his place. Fish, who I knew from math class, would usually play, as would Most and Sam. Fuji sometimes hosted a poker game at his house, when his parents were away. Or more precisely, the balcony that came off of it. What are your biggest memories around money? One of mine happened in Fuji’s kitchen. (OK, yes, and that some of those also baffled an intrigued by the puzzle will be CEOs who call me.)Īnyway, keep the bs detection posts coming, Jonathan. My aim is not to convince anyone, but to share attempts at solving a puzzle that has long baffled and intrigued me. The Bigger Narrative (podcast): /podcast (some eps, including the first, include data on story impact, though of course that's almost impossible to tease out in a rigorous way) INTERVIEWS W/CEOS ON STRATEGIC NARRATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT ![]() To Create a New Category, Name the New Game The Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen: While I haven't nailed an ironclad case (and probably never will), here's some of what I've learned and shared: I'm way less interested in narrative as a marketing tool than as a leadership (strategy) tool, but I've been doing my best to figure this out in public. So what applies? What doesn't? 20+ years later, I'm still trying to answer the same questions that Johnathan Dane poses in the tweet below. That said, once upon a time, my VC pitch went from ignored to term sheet after I read books about narrative structure. I've always found the term "storytelling" yucky in a business context. ![]()
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