Jeffrey Ma
When it comes to beating the house, Jeffrey Ma proves that data-driven decisions and smart risk-taking trump luck every time
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- From the renowned MIT blackjack team to serial entrepreneur and in-demand business consultant, he delivers game-changing insights on strategy, innovation, and risk.
- CEO and Co-founder of tenXer, ESPN Predictive Analytics Expert & Kingpin of the Famous MIT Blackjack Team
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When it comes to beating the house – whether you’re amassing poker chips or market share – Jeffrey Ma proves that data-driven decisions and smart risk-taking trump luck every time.
Jeffrey gained worldwide recognition as a member of the MIT blackjack team, which inspired the best-selling book, “Bringing Down the House” and the hit film, “21.” Since then, he has founded GlofSpan.com (sold to Demand Media), Circle Lending (sold to Virgin), Citizen Sports (sold to Yahoo!) and most recently, tenXer, an analytics tool designed to optimize employee performance, progress and productivity, which was acquired by Twitter.
From Sports Illustrated to Ford and ESPN, leading global corporations seek Jeffrey’s insight on how to effectively understand and utilize technology as a competitive advantage. In his best-selling business book, “The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business,” Jeffrey seamlessly connects his experiences at the table and in the sports world to business analytics, providing insights that are accessible for individuals at every level.
With an extraordinary real life tale that illustrates the power of data, coupled with an entrepreneur’s business expertise, Jeffrey captivates audiences with fascinating insights on strategy, innovation, risk, analytics—and how to understand, play and win the game.
Data, gleaned through technology, is not only supposed to help us do our jobs, but do them better. Sometimes, it can even make us ten times better than the average employee. Through the lens of his experiences in blackjack, pro sports consulting, and Hollywood, Jeffrey Ma discusses the importance of setting goals as well as tracking your progress and productivity along the way, and how gaming, analytics, and competitive tracking can lead to more useful, constructive feedback and more motivated teams and employees.
How one deals with losing tells a lot about the person. Losing tests our confidence, our conviction, our ability to deal with future risk and more importantly our character. The real story and real lessons of 21 come from the adversity faced on the blackjack table. Sharing the story of losing $100,000 in two hands of blackjack, Ma reveals how he recovered his confidence through teamwork, trust, creativity, and goal-setting. “The $100,000 Lesson” is about more than winning and losing: it is about learning how to fight obstacles in order to create the best team possible.
Drawing from his unique personal experiences, from the blackjack table to consulting professional sports teams, Ma talks about innovative metrics in a way that will make you reevaluate how your group accesses talent, finds undervalued assets, and measure the true worth of your business. By eschewing emotion and honing in on hard facts and results, Ma has helped usher in what Newsweek calls “a new age of numbers in corporate America.”
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