Venture's Pattern Matching Problem
“We've trained ourselves to spot the right schools, the right logos, the polished deck, and what that's costing us is mistaking familiarity for quality.”
Transcript
And I do think venture as a whole right now has a pattern matching problem. I mean, we've trained ourselves to spot the right schools, the right logos, like the polished deck. And I think what's that, what that's costing us is mistaking familiarity for quality, right? And I think that's how you're going to miss the generational founders, because
I think pattern recognition, it's useful for risk mitigation and, you know, necessary to understand what those boxes might be, what those phenotypes are, but I mean, it's terrible for discovering the non-obvious upside. I think that that is, that is so well said.