Super Mario and the 80/20 Principle

Steve Glaveski
Steve Glaveski
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2019

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Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, and published his findings in his first work, Cours d’économie politique.

Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.

But this phenomena doesn’t stop there.

Did you know?

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Steve Glaveski
Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.