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[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Darren: How’s the horse racing biz?
Otto: GREAT! I read some books. Talked with some gurus. Really got down and dirty in the trenches.

Darren: So you race horses now?
Otto: I’m a fractional owner of a leveraged derivatives partnership which holds some racehorses as assets, yes.
Otto: The fund also holds partial variable stakes in horse racing as an overall market cap both here and abroad

Otto: Currently most of my holdings are focused on DUBAI but I have an algorithm that automatically speed-trades my equity depending on a gamut of aggregate indices
Otto: Pretty standard stuff

Darren: Is it… working?
Otto: So far I’ve managed a steady adjusted 0.05% daily reinvested dividend for my consortium of silent partners and venture backers!

Darren: But no actual, uh… horse racing
Otto: Oh GOD no. FILTHY creatures.

{{header: capitalize on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: You got me!! Where do I invest!!!!!!! wait — in the alley behind the broken-down WHAT now?}}

#1022; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 2) transcribed by in

[[Two businesspeople are talking.]]
Darren: How's the horse racing biz?
Otto: GREAT! I read some books. Talked with some gurus. Really got down and dirty in the trenches.

Darren: So you race horses now?
Otto: I'm a fractional owner of a leveraged derivatives partnership which holds some racehorses as assets, yes.
Otto: The fund also holds partial variable stakes in horse racing as an overall market cap both here and abroad

Otto: Currently most of my holdings are focused on DUBAI but I have an algorithm that automatically speed-trades my equity depending on a gamut of aggregate indices
Otto: Pretty standard stuff

Darren: Is it... working?
Otto: So far I've managed a steady adjusted 0.05% daily reinvested dividend for my consortium of silent partners and venture backers!

Darren: But no actual, uh... horse racing
Otto: Oh GOD no. FILTHY creatures.

{{header: capitalize on WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: You got me!! Where do I invest!!!!!!! wait -- in the alley behind the broken-down WHAT now?}}

You got me!! Where do I invest!!!!!!! wait -- in the alley behind the broken-down WHAT now?

#1022; The Counsel of the Expert (Part 2)

  — April 23rd, 2014

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Continued from Part 1

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Applications open for Genius Northwest – an IRL gaming competition

May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.


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