TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS
THE IMPORTANCE OF FOUNDER PEDIGREE IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
This is a fascinating read that argues how investors behave around new technologies. Without benchmarks and historical insight, investors will revert back to founder-market-fit, using signals like pedigree and education. A canonical example of this is the amount of researchers and PhD wielders that have been recipients of the latest AI funding boom.