A Monster in Tech Shakes Up the Poker World - How She is Doing it!
Dan "Jungleman" Cates · "Jungleman" Dan Cates
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Victoria Livschitz is a technologist, innovator and serial tech entrepreneur with 10+ companies in different industries, including Grid Dynamics, an early pioneer in cloud computing that went public in 2020. Also avid our doorwoman, she has trekked thousands of miles of wilderness from polar Alaska to Southern Patagonia. For the last two years Victoria has been deeply enamored with poker - the game, the community and the industry. She plays in major tournaments around the world, including High Roller MTTs, with several titles wins, including two recent FTs at PokerGO Masters. Victoria is also a co-founder of OctopiPoker.ai with LuckyChewy and Nick Schulman - the new poker tech company. Finally, Victoria is a co-founder of Pocket Queens - a study group, turned global platform for women to pursue mastery in poker.
Here is what you can expect to hear on this week's episode:
0:00 Introduction
2:19 A Career in Tech
6:35 Burnout
7:18 Discovering Mountains
9:21 Binging Final Tables and Discovering High Stakes Poker
13:03 Absolutely Hooked on Poker
14:55 Transfer Learning - Making Poker Simple
16:45 An Unusual Success Story
23:58 A Hostile Business Takeover and Reception in Moscow with Schwarzenegger
35:51 Poker's Black Friday
43:06 Mindset
51:51 A Genetic Edge - ADHD and Hyper-Focus
1:09:06 Octopi Poker - How Do You Want to Learn Poker?
1:35:40 How to Scale Social Impact
1:48:03Bringing Women to the Poker World
152:20 Hard Problems Require Nerds
Follow Victoria Livschitz:
Facebook: @Victoria Livschitz
X (formerly Twitter): @victoria_64
Websites: https://rightontrek.com/
https://octopipoker.ai/
https://www.pocketqueens.poker/
Follow "Jungleman" Dan Cates on social:
Instagram: @wtgolpodcast
@thedancates
Twitter: @junglemandan
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