VCs talk about pattern matching but IMO the secret to being a good VC is feature selection, not pattern matching. Finding good investments is less about seeing if someone matches a pattern & more about figuring out which attributes matter. Pedigree isn't one of those attributes.
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Good salesmanship, grit, resourcefulness, self-awareness, founder-market fit, ...
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Pattern matching sounds more like- Founder being Stanford/ivy grad (pedigree), previous investors, city the startup operates from, co-founder dynamics(if they were college roommate or coworkers someplace in the past), some benchmark traction/
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Literally if an algorithm is designed to find patterns amongst some responses, it uses a set of attributes!
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Don’t think they’re mutually exclusive. Macro pattern recognition (i.e. market trends, exponential technologies) Micro attribute recognition (i.e. grit, resourcefulness, experience)
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It is, but I think the specific things that a VC pattern matches for is more of a differentiator than the pattern matching itself. Also when people complain about pattern matching, I think they're usually complaining about feature selection.https://twitter.com/lpolovets/status/1269782986418827266 …
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