Start-ups Shaping Our Cities
By Joe Haslam
business failures decided to try his luck at roulette. Using the hypothesis that there must be defects in the system (“If Swiss watches and NASA rockets have imperfections, then so do roulette wheels”), they carefully collected data on what numbers came up more than others. It was a slog, involving long days and tense relations with the staff at the Madrid Gran Casino, but between 1991 and 1995, they estimate that their endeavours earned them some 250 million pesetas (1.5 million euros). The director of the film describes it as “a classic story, the dream of a handful of social pariahs whose rival is Big Business” And Big Business even conformed to type by bringing The Palayos to the Supreme Court for “gaming irregularities” where, with the idiosyncrasy that is both refreshing and infuriating about Spain, the court ruled their methods legitimate and even praised their “inventiveness”.
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It might not be your kind of film, but anything where the underdog nerds triumphs is as irresistible to me now as back when the Tri-Lambs get their frat house back from the Alpha Betas in Revenge of the Nerds. As I look up at my bookshelf, I also see
Bringing
down the House about how six MIT
students
took Vegas for millions and I remember well
16 entrepreneurcountry
great film has just come out in Spain called The Palayos. It tells the story of how a family patriarch, after a series of
Sheldon
Adelson wants to be granted exemptions from current laws for creating the new ‘Euro Vegas’
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