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VC Uncovered · Nia Patel, Montage Ventures

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.”

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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.

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