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“There's no shortcut to becoming a great pattern matcher in VC”
...patterns and patterns get built over time or many, many data points. So you have to meet thousands of founders and and not not just first meeting, right, but go into depth with them as you further eva
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tactical advice17:18 – 17:54
And it doesn't have to be absolutely everyone. Right? And, like, the interviews are always the sign that you're checking for different attributes. And if someone is, like, knocking out of the park in every single attribute, that's that's fairly rare.
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...query pattern. I think, like, I really like the way that,
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“First Round Capital founder challenges the golden rule of VC investing”
...bit on pattern matching. I think that by definition, we're trying to find raw and fragile and contrarian ideas. And the challenge with pattern matching is that you begin to generalize. So I'm not sure
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contrarian take11:53 – 12:12
...pattern matching is that you begin to generalize. So I'm not sure that the best pattern matchers are the best investors. You know, I think what we're looking for is a founder who has a unique perspective, a passionate perspective, an informed perspec
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...pattern matching, and he always gets attacked. It's like, you know, he pattern matches. He's not looking for quality. He's just looking for pattern matching. And, like, you know, it's like and it does founders don't match the pattern. It's like it's
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...pattern matching. There's real understanding in the existing models. But I think I think it's possible that as you train models on less data and you really force the model to have incredibly deep understandings of everything it's seen, it may actuall
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...matching. There's real understanding in the existing models. But I think I think it's possible that as you train models on less data and you really force the model to have incredibly deep understandings of everything it's seen, it may actually just b
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...doing pattern matching. And I think the more fundamental question is, can you pattern match in this market? I I don't know that the Brita filter version of investing is the right way to evaluate, or at least I'm not executing the way that I wanna do
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...all these pattern matching algorithms that happens in the startup world. I wanna start presenting possible pattern matches so that
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...pattern matching algorithms that happens in the startup world. I wanna start presenting possible pattern matches so that if a new founder comes along, they can say, we're the Shelton for Timberland. And that's the way of framing what they're doing. A
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...pattern matching. One of my favorite themes is finding businesses that have mission critical products that they're selling. They have dominated those markets. They have a path towards organic growth and towards acquisitive growth. And in 2021, a comp
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...pattern matching that he does from these key names. And if there's one way that it showed up for me in my personal investing process, it is very much the pattern matching. One of my favorite themes is finding businesses
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...my pattern matching is broken now. The only way to fix it is to basically forget everything you knew before, well, not forget everything, but really question every assumption that you'd made, and then get your hands back on the tools. And I think tha
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...pattern match, it works much better to be horizontal across many companies versus vertical, on one specific one. But that doesn't mean I'd still don't take those vertical engagements to deepen my knowledge into any specific topic. For me to pattern m
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...the pattern matching, but also the people matching where we had kind of role fits for them. Is there anything where being a second time or serial founder makes you worse? Maybe you're more jaded. You're more cynical. I'm just trying to disprove I was
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...the pattern matching, but also the people matching where we had kind of role fits for them. Is there anything where being a second time or serial founder makes you worse? Maybe you're more jaded. You're more cynical. I'm just trying to disprove I was
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...the pattern matching and cycles. Mhmm. Like, I think, you know, I I heard, a mentor told me this quote. I just love it. Is in any ten year business period, you have six good years, two great years, and two terrible years that could put you out of bus
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...matching and pattern recognition, but you you don't necessarily have a lot of that. What I always say to managers is, like, pick out one or two people that you think had the best onboarding. Get really disciplined about those two or three things that
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...But pattern matching is not intelligence. LLMs learn correlation. They don't build models of cause and effect. To get to AGI, MISRA argues, we need the ability to keep learning after training and the move from correlation to causation. Martin Casado
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