Benjamin Kuo’s Blog

We’ve just posted a new article to our Insights and Opinions section, about The Rookie Advantage. This article comes from a well regarded, local executive (who has been involved in a couple of successful IPOs and a number of mergers & acquisitions here in SoCal)–but who wants to remain anonymous.

How Rookies and Startups Can Maintain Their Unfair Advantage

Late in the 1936 baseball season, a 17-year-old Iowa farm boy struck out
15 St. Louis Browns batters in his first Major League game. Shortly
thereafter, that same pitcher went on to strike out 17 Philadelphia
Athletics batters, an unprecedented feat for anyone, let alone a youth
with no professional sports experience.

How could such a young, inexperienced athlete baffle so many major league
veterans? The answer is simple: the Browns and the Athletics had the
misfortune of facing Bob Feller before anyone wrote The Book on him.

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