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That's part of the "odds that it will be dropbox" calculation. It's also why we invest primarily in founders and not ideas.



Interesting point. I view YC's strategy as playing the central limit theorem -- taking a high-volatility random variable (startup returns) and increasing the sample size until the sample mean tends arbitrarily close to the population mean.

Smart, guys.




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