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The venture business is a strange one because you're making decisions about things that don't yet exist, trying to figure out whether the founder has the capacity and the ability and the drive and the intelligence and the resilience to do something with an idea that hasn't yet been tested in the marketplace.

— Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
1w ago

The ones that are really, really difficult to make are the ones where you have to somehow assess whether a person who is completely green and untested is capable of learning the sorts of things necessary to found a great company. And that, I think, is the art form of the venture business, because you're trying to assess a person who has no track record at all.

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