TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS

THE IMPORTANCE OF FOUNDER PEDIGREE IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

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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.