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One day there may be a VC that only interacts with potential investments through the internet where no age, gender, height, orientation, religion, etc. is ever disclosed, both by the investor and investees. The only information to go off of would be the product/service, the business plan, and the integrity of the idea. Funny how this hasn't really caught on yet...

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This will never happen because investors don't strictly invest in ideas. They also invest in people. Pg would fund any Zuckerberg idea, not because of the idea, but because of Zuckerberg's qualities. Or, put differently, Facebook minus Zuckerberg may have failed. Their early years were tenuous, and one wrong decision about what users would or wouldn't tolerate may have broken their momentum.

You can't assess that via the internet. You have to meet them.

What are the enumerated qualities of founders that can only be discerned live in person in relation to profitable product development in an age when you can hire out your PR to another person? Genuinely curious about this. I grew up on the internet, before people used their real names, when people were debating ideas and not entrenched with identity politics. I earned my first freelance job as an 8th grader and those people in the UK had no idea my age or gender, just that I could make something for them.

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