🏀 Happy Selection Sunday! We’ll start filling out our NCAA Tournament brackets this evening, and we can’t wait to watch all of March Madness, hopefully without sacrificing too much productivity at work.

The absurd odds of a perfect bracket, you ask? Something like one in 9.2 quintillion. Heck, we have a much better chance of finding the stock market’s next 100-bagger than perfecting college basketball’s “bracketology.”

Today, we'll discuss serendipity in business and how many of the great companies (and ideas) stem from chance encounters.

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— Matthew

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What Else We’re Into

📺 WATCH: Goldman: Tech-driven rally built on ‘strong foundation’

🎧 LISTEN: Book club: The Psychology of Money with David Fagan

📖 READ: How to improve your ‘small talk’ game and connect with others