Inboxes

Create an inbox to save and track emails. It's free!

+New inbox
Back
Back
Back 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
  <title>
  </title>
  <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
  <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1" name="viewport"/>
  <!--[if !mso]><!-->
  <meta content="IE=Edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"/>
  <!--<![endif]-->
  <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
          <style type="text/css">
            table {border-collapse: collapse;}
            table, td {mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace: 0pt;}
            img {-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;}
          </style>
          <![endif]-->
 </head>
 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" data-attributes="%7B%22dropped%22%3Atrue%2C%22bodybackground%22%3A%22%23FFFFFF%22%2C%22bodyfontname%22%3A%22arial%2Csans-serif%22%2C%22bodytextcolor%22%3A%22%23000000%22%2C%22bodylinkcolor%22%3A%22%231188e6%22%2C%22bodyfontsize%22%3A%2214px%22%7D" style="background: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0; min-width: 100%; padding: 0;" yahoofix="true">
  <center class="wrapper">
   <div class="webkit" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
    <table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="wrapper" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: 100%; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100% !important;" width="100%">
     <tbody>
      <tr>
       <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" width="100%">
        <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
                        <table width="600" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                          <tr>
                            <td>
                              <![endif]-->
        <table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module footer" data-attributes="%7B%22dropped%22%3Atrue%2C%22columns%22%3A1%2C%22padding%22%3A%2210%2C5%2C10%2C5%22%2C%22containerbackground%22%3A%22%23ffffff%22%7D" data-type="footer" role="module" style="color: #000000; max-width: 600px; padding: 10px 5px;" width="100%">
         <tbody>
          <!-- START DYNAMIC CONTENT -->
          <!-- START SUNDAY HEADER -->
          <tr role="module-content">
           <td align="center" class="templateColumnContainer" valign="top" width="100%">
            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
             <tbody>
              <tr id="intro">
               <td colspan="2" style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 1px; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 120%; padding: 20px 0;">
                How a rogue Romanian economist legally won the lottery 14 times.
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr style="vertical-align: bottom;">
               <td bgcolor="#000000" class="leftColumnContent" role="column-one" style="background: #000000; height: 100%; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 20px;">
                <a style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; text-decoration: none;">
                 The Hustle
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="right" bgcolor="#000000" class="rightColumnContent" role="column-two" style="background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; height: 100%; line-height: 18px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: right;">
                Issue #19
               </td>
              </tr>
             </tbody>
            </table>
            <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module" data-attributes="%7B%22dropped%22%3Atrue%2C%22child%22%3Afalse%2C%22padding%22%3A%220%2C0%2C0%2C0%22%2C%22containerbackground%22%3A%22%23ffffff%22%7D" data-type="text" role="module" style="table-layout: fixed;" width="100%">
             <tbody>
              <tr>
               <td>
                <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                 <img alt="The Hustle, Sunday, August 19, 2018" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fthdaily.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Flotto-header_20180818012233.gif/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGRhaWx5LnMzLSJ9:1kXPDb:TAjXbH7_RAM73fy2xhuDTbMouGxg0PIwjBpMrqiLhgU" style="display: block; height: auto; width: 100%;"/>
                </a>
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
               <td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 10px 0; text-align: center;">
                Sunday, August 19, 2018
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
               <td style="font-family: 'Courier New',sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding-top: 10px;">
                Brought to you by
                <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                 ZBiotics
                </a>
                … end your fear of hangovers, AKA FOHO
               </td>
              </tr>
             </tbody>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END SUNDAY HEADER -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <h2 style="font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 36px;">
             <strong>
              The man who won the lottery 14 times (Part I)
             </strong>
            </h2>
            <p style="color: #737373; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 10px;">
             How a rogue Romanian economist escaped poverty, wrote an algorithm, and gamed more than a dozen lotteries around the world.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 24px;">
             <strong>
              BY
              <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">
               Zachary Crockett
              </a>
             </strong>
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- START NOTE -->
          <tr>
           <td bgcolor="#ececec" style="background: #ececec; color: #3e3e3e; padding: 15px 15px 5px;">
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             <em>
              <strong>
               Editor’s note:
              </strong>
             </em>
             <em>
              This story is so good that we broke it into 2 parts.
             </em>
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             <em>
              This is PART 1; for PART 2, be sure to tune in next week. You won’t want to miss it.
             </em>
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END NOTE -->
          <!-- START PADDING -->
          <tr>
           <td style="padding-bottom: 20px;">
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END PADDING -->
          <!-- START BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Just after 11 PM on February 15, 1992, a janky ball machine at the Virginia State Lottery HQ spit out 6 winning numbers on live television: 8... 11… 13... 15... 19… 20.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             In the coming days, officials would find out that one “person” had secured not only the $27,036,142 jackpot, but 6 second prizes, 132 third prizes, and 135 minor prizes collectively worth another $900k.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             What unfolded next was the strangest, most improbable lottery tale in history — one involving thousands of international investors, dozens of complex computer systems, and a mathematical savant who’d masterminded the entire operation from the other side of the world.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             This is the story of the man who “gamed” the lottery by buying every possible combination.
            </p>
            <h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
             <strong>
              One way out
             </strong>
            </h4>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             In the late 1960s, a young Romanian economist named Stefan Mandel was struggling to get by.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             At the time, Romania was under
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              oppressive Communist rule
             </a>
             , a period marred by poverty, job and food shortages, and “
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              profound misery
             </a>
             .” Mandel’s salary of 360 lei (US $88) a month was not enough to support his wife and two children, and, as he later
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              told
             </a>
             <em>
              Planet Money
             </em>
             , he needed a way to “get some serious money, quickly.”
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Many Romanians in Mandel’s predicament had, out of necessity, turned to lives of crime. But Mandel, a self-described “philosopher-mathematician,” saw another way out: The lottery.
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <img alt="" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fthdaily.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fmandel%2520combo_20180819022408.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGRhaWx5LnMzLSJ9:1kXPDb:TAjXbH7_RAM73fy2xhuDTbMouGxg0PIwjBpMrqiLhgU" style="height: auto; padding-top: 10px; width: 100%;"/>
            <p style="color: #5f696c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 8px;">
             Top: Stefan Mandel spent more than a decade reading mathematical theories before winning his first lottery in the 1960s; Bottom: Mandel’s lottery feats made headlines in his hometown Romanian newspaper (Via Busra; Illustrations: The Hustle)
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- START BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Let’s take a step back here:
             <em>
              What kind of idiot banks on winning the lottery?
             </em>
             You’re literally more likely to win an Olympic gold medal, have identical quintuplets, or get
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              crushed by a vending machine
             </a>
             .
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Well, Mandel wasn’t just any guy — he was a natural with numbers who spent every spare minute analyzing theoretical probability papers written by the 13th-century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. And, after years of research, he wrote a “number-picking algorithm” based on a method he dubbed “
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              <ins>
               combinatorial condensation
              </ins>
             </a>
             .”
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             "I'm a weekend mathematician, an accountant without too much education,” he later told a
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              <ins>
               Romanian magazine
              </ins>
             </a>
             . “But mathematics properly applied can guarantee a fortune.”
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Using the algorithm, Mandel claimed he could accurately predict 5 of the 6 winning numbers, reducing the number of combinations in a lottery from millions to mere thousands. With a band of friends and acquaintances, he took a big risk and purchased large blocks of lottery tickets with the combinations his formula has deemed to be most likely.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Miraculously (and with a lot of luck), he won the first prize of 78,783 lei (about US $19.3k). After expenses, he walked away with  $4k, enough to bribe foreign ministry officials and flee Romania for a new life — and a bigger jackpot.
            </p>
            <h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
             <strong>
              Turning lottery wins into a business
             </strong>
            </h4>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             After 4 years of roaming around Europe, Mandel settled in Australia and he set out to game the lottery in a different way.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             In the typical lottery, a set of numbers within a certain range (say,
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              1-50
             </a>
             ) are randomly selected;  if yours match in any order, you win the jackpot. The chances of winning are based on the number of possible combinations of these numbers, often in the millions.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             But Mandel caught on to something: In certain lottos, the
             <strong>
              total number of possible ticket combinations
             </strong>
             was
             <em>
              significantly
             </em>
             <em>
              lower
             </em>
             than the
             <strong>
              jackpot
             </strong>
             .
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             For example, let’s say a lottery required 6 picks of numbers between 1 and 40. This would yield 3,838,380 possible number combinations (
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              calculator here
             </a>
             ). Now, let’s say that same lottery had a $10m jackpot. In theory, Mandel could buy a ticket for every single combination at $1 each and be guaranteed a win — and, after taxes, a decent profit.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Mandel maintained that “any high school math student could calculate the combinations.” But this method came with some major logistical setbacks.
             <em>
              How would he get the capital? And how could he possibly fill out hundreds of thousands of tickets, number by number?
             </em>
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <img alt="" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fthdaily.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fmandelchart_20180819051519.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGRhaWx5LnMzLSJ9:1kXPDb:TAjXbH7_RAM73fy2xhuDTbMouGxg0PIwjBpMrqiLhgU" style="height: auto; padding-top: 10px; width: 100%;"/>
            <p style="color: #5f696c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 8px;">
             Mandel’s system was simple — but incredible complex from a logistical standpoint (The Hustle)
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- START BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Over a period of years, while working a day job as an insurance agent, Mandel convinced hundreds of investors to pool their money together and create a “lotto syndicate.” He then developed a full-fledged automation system: A room full of printers and computers running on an algorithm that pre-populated tickets with every combination.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Computers revolutionized Mandel’s process. Before, he’d been limited to writing out millions of combinations by hand, where a single mistake could ruin 8 months’ worth of work; now, he could outsource the work to a machine.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Throughout the 1980s, Mandel’s syndicate would wait until a jackpot ballooned to an amount higher than the total combinations, then “move to buy” thousands of tickets. They managed to win 12 lotteries (and rake in 400k smaller prizes) across Australia and the UK.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             “Everyone said to me: You can not, you will not succeed! " Mandel
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              <ins>
               told
              </ins>
             </a>
             a Romanian newspaper at the time. “Now, the voices that have long [cast me as] a dreamer have been silenced.”
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             But Mandel’s system soon hit a wall.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             For one, the profits were relatively modest (in $1.3m 1987 win, he pocketed $97k after paying taxes and  investors). His repeated wins also attracted the attention of Australian lottery authorities, who changed the law
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              multiple times
             </a>
             : by the end of the ‘80s, they’d outlawed both computer-printed tickets and bulk purchasing of tickets by an individual.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             So, he set his sights on much bigger feat — one that would make international headlines and boggle the minds of lottery officials around the world.
            </p>
            <h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
             <strong>
              The $27m Virginia jackpot
             </strong>
            </h4>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Using his profits, Mandel planted “scouts” all over North America (Montreal, Boston, Miami, Phoenix, Norfolk), and compiled a list of historical lotteries with jackpots that were at least 3x the total of all possible combinations.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             After
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              considering
             </a>
             Massachusetts ($37m jackpot to 9m combinations), and Arizona ($11m to 5.1m), he ultimately pinpointed the Virginia Lottery.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Virginia’s lottery offered several advantages. It was fairly new, and allowed buyers to purchase tickets in unlimited quantities and print them at home. But most importantly, its numbers only ranged from 1 to 44 (other states went as high as 54). This meant that with 6 picks, there were “only” 7,059,052 possible combinations, compared to the usual 25m+.
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <img alt="" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fthdaily.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fticket_20180819063021.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGRhaWx5LnMzLSJ9:1kXPDb:TAjXbH7_RAM73fy2xhuDTbMouGxg0PIwjBpMrqiLhgU" style="height: auto; padding-top: 10px; width: 100%;"/>
            <p style="color: #5f696c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 8px;">
             Top: A 1992 headline from the New York Times; Bottom: a 1992 Virginia lottery ticket (via NYT Archives)
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- START BODY TEXT -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Under the shell corporation
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              Pacific Financial Resources
             </a>
             , Mandel set up a trust called the
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              International Lotto Fund
             </a>
             (ILF) and convinced 2,524 investors to put at least $3k each in the pot.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Given Mandel’s prior successes, the demand was hot: He raised more than $9m.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             In a Melbourne warehouse, he set up 30 computers and 12 laser printers, and hired 16 full-time employees to print 7m tickets pre-populated with every combination — a process that took 3 months. He then shipped the one-tonne of paper weight to a point-person in the US at a cost of $60k.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             With the tickets secured in Virginia, Mandel had to wait until the jackpot hit a number that would make financial sense after taxes, overhead, and paying off investors.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             A state lottery prize typically begins in the low millions and increases every time a drawing goes by with no winner. (When you see those insane
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              $758m
             </a>
             jackpots, it means nobody has won in quite some time.) Mandel had to anticipate when to strike, and had to hope for the best that there wouldn’t be multiple winners to dilute the pot and ruin his margins.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             On February 12, 1992, the Virginia Lottery jackpot hit $27m. Mandel’s team on the ground was given a simple directive:
             <em>
              Go.
             </em>
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             With that, they had 72 hours to pull off a logistical miracle. And nobody — not even Mandel — could’ve anticipated the the madness that would ensue.
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END BODY TEXT -->
          <!-- START NOTE -->
          <tr>
           <td bgcolor="#ececec" style="background: #ececec; color: #3e3e3e; padding: 15px 15px 5px;">
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             <em>
              This concludes PART 1 of this Sunday Edition. Tune in next Sunday to catch PART 2 (and some extra material you won’t want to miss).
             </em>
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END NOTE -->
          <!-- START PADDING -->
          <tr>
           <td style="padding-bottom: 20px;">
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END PADDING -->
          <!-- START SHARIES -->
          <tr>
           <td style="padding-top: 20px;">
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 5px; text-align: center;">
            Share and discuss this story
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td>
            <table style="border: 2px solid #000000; border-spacing: 0px; padding: 20px; width: 100%;">
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#797979" style="background: #797979; border-bottom-color: #4e4e4e; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; padding: 12px 12px 9px; text-align: center;">
               <a style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; padding: 12px; text-decoration: none;">
                ON OUR WEBSITE →
               </a>
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td style="padding-top: 20px;">
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#3050a5" style="background: #3050a5; border-bottom-color: #19347c; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; padding: 12px 12px 9px; text-align: center;">
               <a style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; padding: 12px; text-decoration: none;">
                ON FACEBOOK →
               </a>
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td style="padding-top: 20px;">
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#ed374d" style="background: #ed374d; border-bottom-color: #c51f33; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; padding: 12px 12px 9px; text-align: center;">
               <a style="color: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; padding: 12px; text-decoration: none;">
                ON POCKET →
               </a>
              </td>
             </tr>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td id="ender" style="padding-top: 80px;">
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END SHARIES -->
          <!-- START NATIVE -->
          <tr>
           <td align="center" style="font-family: 'Courier New',serif; text-align: center;">
            This edition of The Hustle was brought to you by
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td>
            <center>
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              <img src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fthdaily.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fzbiotics_20180818003215.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGRhaWx5LnMzLSJ9:1kXPDb:TAjXbH7_RAM73fy2xhuDTbMouGxg0PIwjBpMrqiLhgU" style="height: 100px; width: 250px;"/>
             </a>
            </center>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="sponsored">
           <td bgcolor="#ffffff" role="module-content">
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             <br/>
            </p>
            <h2 style="font-size: 26px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 36px;">
             <strong>
              Meet the team behind the first-ever bioengineered probiotic to prevent hangovers
             </strong>
            </h2>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             After 2 years of development, PhD microbiologist Zack Abbott and his team had a breakthrough -- a bioengineered probiotic that could target acetaldehyde, a compound known to cause hangovers.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Today, he’s packaged that tiny breakthrough in a bottle for his company,
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              ZBiotics
             </a>
             .
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             ZBiotics creates an enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde
             <em>
              as
             </em>
             you’re drinking. It’s kind of like taking a mini-shot of toxin-digesting livers, and it solves one of the most prevalent issues young professionals face: Hangovers.
            </p>
            <h4 style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 16px;">
             <strong>
              Say goodbye to your FOHO -- Fear of Hangovers
             </strong>
            </h4>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Seriously. The fact that we’ve made fully functional bionic arms, can clone sheep, yet are still destroyed by a 6-pack of IPAs the next morning is mind-boggling.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             Just take a shot of
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              ZBiotics
             </a>
             with your first drink, and enjoy your night. Inside, those probiotics go to work breaking down toxins with every sip.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             And come the next morning, you’ll be ready for that morning jog, farmer’s market, or whatever else it was you promised your weekday-self you’d do.
            </p>
            <p style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding-bottom: 12px;">
             For a limited time, Hustle readers can pre-order
             <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
              a 12-pack of ZBiotics
             </a>
             for 50% off -- that’s $30 today to say sayonara to hangovers.
            </p>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="cta">
           <td align="center" style="padding: 20px 0 40px; text-align: center; width: 100%;">
            <a style="background: #ffffff; border: 2px solid #000000; border-radius: 3px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.5px; padding: 10px 15px; text-decoration: none;">
             FOHO ends here →
            </a>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td id="ender" style="padding-top: 54px;">
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END NATIVE -->
          <!-- START SONG -->
          <tr>
           <td style="padding-bottom: 20px;">
            <table>
             <tr>
              <td rowspan="3" style="vertical-align: middle;" valign="middle">
               <img alt="Now Playing" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Fmusic_bars.gif/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="height: auto; width: 20px;" width="20"/>
              </td>
              <td rowspan="3" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 3px; vertical-align: middle; width: 64px;" valign="middle">
               Now Playing:
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td>
               <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                <strong>
                 Money, The Drums
                </strong>
               </a>
               . Sometimes you wanna treat your boo to a steak dinner… but you’re on a burger budget.
              </td>
             </tr>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END SONG -->
          <tr>
           <td>
            <table style="border-spacing: 0;">
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-size: 32px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; max-width: 100px; padding: 10px 10px 0px; text-align: center;">
               0
              </td>
              <td align="right" bgcolor="#000000" rowspan="2" style="background: #000000; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px 10px; text-align: right; width: 100%;">
               <a style="background: #ff5938; border-radius: 3px; color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px; padding: 12px 10px; text-decoration: none;">
                SHARE THE HUSTLE
               </a>
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td align="center " bgcolor="#000000 " style="background: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 100%; padding: 4px 20px 10px; text-align: center;">
               REFERRALS
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan="2" style="background: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;">
               <a style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;">
                //ambassadors.thehustle.co/?ref=950fce10a7
               </a>
              </td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
              <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan="2" style="background: #ffffff; border-bottom-color: #000000; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; color: #000000; padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%;">
               <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 100%;">
                YOUR UNIQUE URL
               </span>
              </td>
             </tr>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="credits">
           <td>
            <table style="width: 100%;">
             <tbody>
              <tr>
               <td colspan="2" style="padding-top: 20px;">
                <table style="text-align: center; width: 100%;">
                 <tr>
                  <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; min-width: 130px; padding: 5px; text-align: center;">
                   <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                    <img alt="Zack Crockett" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Ffooter_zack.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="padding-bottom: 10px; width: 60px;"/>
                   </a>
                   <br/>
                   Zack Crockett
                   <br/>
                   <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px;">
                    NEWS WRITER
                   </span>
                  </td>
                  <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; min-width: 130px; padding: 5px; text-align: center;">
                   <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                    <img alt="Kolby Hatch" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Fkolby_footer.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="padding-bottom: 10px; width: 60px;"/>
                   </a>
                   <br/>
                   Kolby Hatch
                   <br/>
                   <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px;">
                    AD WRITER
                   </span>
                  </td>
                 </tr>
                </table>
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr style="line-height: 120%;">
               <td align="center" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 20px 0; text-align: center; width: 50%;">
                <a style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">
                 Lindsey “Golden ticket” Quinn
                </a>
                <br/>
                <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px;">
                 MANAGING EDITOR
                </span>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; padding: 20px 0; text-align: center; width: 50%;">
                Roland D. Dice
                <br/>
                <span style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 8px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase;">
                 Probability Expert
                </span>
               </td>
              </tr>
             </tbody>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr id="classifieds">
           <td align="center" style="border-top-color: #000000; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; padding: 12px 0; text-align: center;">
            <table style="width: 100%;">
             <tbody>
              <tr>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; padding: 5px 0; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0 8px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">
                 SUBSCRIBE
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; padding: 5px 0; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0 8px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">
                 JOBS
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; padding: 5px 0; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0 8px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">
                 ADVERTISE
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; padding: 5px 0; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0 8px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">
                 EVENTS
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; padding: 5px 0; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; padding: 0 8px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">
                 SHOP
                </a>
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 20px; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                 <img alt="Facebook" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Ffooter_facebook.png/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="padding-bottom: 10px;"/>
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 5px 20px; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                 <img alt="Instagram" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Ffooter_instagram.png/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="padding-bottom: 10px;"/>
                </a>
               </td>
               <td align="center" style="display: inline-block; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 5px 20px; text-align: center;">
                <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
                 <img alt="YouTube" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Ffooter_youtube.png/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="padding-bottom: 10px;"/>
                </a>
               </td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
               <td style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 10px;">
                <a style="background: #ffffff; border: 2px solid #000000; border-radius: 3px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.5px; padding: 10px 15px; text-decoration: none;">
                 Join our Instagram community →
                </a>
               </td>
              </tr>
             </tbody>
            </table>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td align="center" bgcolor="#000000" style="background: #000000; border: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monospace; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; padding: 8px 5px; text-align: center;">
            You opted in by signing up, attending an event, or through divine intervention.
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td align="center" style="border-bottom-color: #000000; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 120%; padding: 4px; text-align: center;">
            <a style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">
             771 CLEMENTINA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103, UNITED STATES
            </a>
            •
            <a style="color: #000000; text-decoration: none;">
             415.506.7210
            </a>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" role="module-content" style="color: #a9a9a9; font-size: 12px; line-height: 120%; margin: 0; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: center;" valign="top">
            Never want to hear from us again? Break our hearts and
            <a style="color: #a9a9a9; text-decoration: underline;">
             unsubscribe
            </a>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
           <td align="center" style="padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px; text-align: center;">
            <center>
             <span style="display: block; float: none; text-align: center;">
              <a style="color: #ed4d1f; text-decoration: none;">
               <img alt="The Hustle" height="22" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com%252Fthdaily%252Fth_daily_email_logo.jpg/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy11cy13ZXN0LSJ9:1kXPDb:K0Ek5PV2rKh3DgZYLd7FQ4vcuFHWhyO003yRWaVP7AA" style="height: 22px; width: 100px;" width="100"/>
              </a>
             </span>
            </center>
           </td>
          </tr>
          <!-- END DYNAMIC CONTENT -->
         </tbody>
        </table>
        <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
                            </td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>
                      <![endif]-->
       </td>
      </tr>
     </tbody>
    </table>
   </div>
  </center>
  <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://inboxflows.com/_/image/http%253A%252F%252Fclick.thehustle.co%252Fwf%252Fopen%253Fupn%253DEbKgGdJ-2FyaBjZnYkL-2Fp0p-2FUYy8lG93ajcqsz7HMox3LAz9p-2BDw08m4nPbBpkCfn0K6dTvyQQ-2BOWIAnS5vMSEstC1iQ5yvByP4JjjxJvd-2BPpoZHAPd9IlevSWwOnkKw8H0H9V3G3Ad7KVEawIYkoJv39lq9EWQE3RGVtjtLinc8FWgS-2BTNRs5kpxr5nDrHqDdrNoiKzuH2Xn688Tb8POjOxaW8-2FLo44QoSQRatefH4I2BZHD2lSHc2eIZqO2Z4KdgfPnlmfsC2ZkJYkDpyJALt6427nPExhH-2F2i26qVyyOI5B1LS2HQlKI-2FjWZ6-2BkC5ZqjF-2Bxe67dlaWHkn3mJkkuD2nZs2HzEIBjj02e8YTYF1C6ELR4fr16kYr5MuujX-2FdE2ZuMWhdkzXPyoLj4OnXMYJM0uur-2BEu15otYbo5K42Ns9epzte9U5JEBznd4MRuvv6V-2BekfOqr-2FeJEPGG2hyIhw-3D-3D/?inbox_flows_img_sig=eyJwYXRoIjoiaHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRmNsaWNrLnRoZWh1cyJ9:1kXPDb:fO9TR5ACN6DPhuh1tKCrU9wrG52THOOqWm3v68ygVwo" style="height:1px !important;width:1px !important;border-width:0 !important;margin-top:0 !important;margin-bottom:0 !important;margin-right:0 !important;margin-left:0 !important;padding-top:0 !important;padding-bottom:0 !important;padding-right:0 !important;padding-left:0 !important;" width="1"/>
 </body>
</html>