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How machine learning increased a venture capitalist's hit rate 3x

  • Writer: Thomas Thurston
    Thomas Thurston
  • Feb 9, 2019
  • 1 min read

Venture capital is a “hit business.” The relatively few hits pay for the high percentage of flops. Venture capitalists are risk takers who embrace the high-risk/high-reward equation. It's the allure of a mega-hit that animates the industry, that keeps investors dreaming, prospecting and writing checks.



 
 

We find where systems get stuck and deploy capital to unstick them. In complex industries, a small number of bottlenecks decide where value accumulates and where progress stalls.

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