Name: Astroball
Rating: 4.30 (1 reviews)
Author: Ben Reiter

In 2014, the Houston Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century.  In 2017, they stunned the world by winning a championship.  Astroball takes you behind the scenes of that unlikely triumph and shows how the Astros built a system that embraced both technology and human insight. 

Nick Crocker is a Partner at Blackbird Ventures, an Australian venture capital fund. Blackbird has invested in some of Australia's most successful startups, including Autopilot, Canva, Coinjar, Dovetail, Redbubble and SafetyCulture. He also sit on the boards of Culture Amp, nura, XY Sense, Startmate, Applied, and Eucalyptus.

Nick

Astroball

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