People are bad at judging things individually but good at comparing two things side by side. So much so that if you put two things side by side it's hard not to compare them. It seems likely there are yet to be founded startups driven by this.
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The relative rankings are probably roughly accurate. And if select the top 100 startups based on those rankings, you'll still get the cream of the crop even if your assessment of absolute quality is thrown off by the bias
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Can also lead to anchoring bias, primacy/recency bias, common information effect, and harsher groupthink after a long day of interviews
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Oh that’s interesting! Would like to quote that in my fundraising dissertation chapter.
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Isn’t this dynamic also at play when founders are encouraged to have a compressed timeline for fundraising? Each investor is competing on various founder determined factors with other investors in that cohort.
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