Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

by Michael Lewis

his favorite video game, Storybook Brawl.

Nate Silver

The deals seemed to involve only Sam’s money: Why shouldn’t Sam be able to do with it whatever he pleased? Still, there couldn’t be many other cases in human history of a person his age tossing around dollars in the amounts he was tossing them without much adult supervision, or the usual constraints of corporate life. A board of directors, for instance.

Sam had briefly entertained the idea that it might be useful to have some older people around. “We tried having some grown-ups, but they didn’t do anything,” he said. “This was true for everyone over the age of forty-five. All they did was worry.

The truth was that grown-ups bored him. All they did was slow him down.