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Comment by ghshephard | Hacker News Reader

Does anybody seriously think, for even a second, that A16Z didn't do massive due diligence with extraordinarily intelligent and experienced individuals before investing?

One thing that A16Z is not lacking is access to tons of Stanford/Berkeley physics PHDs....

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Certainly its been vetted and if successful it will have a big impact. Will it work? Who knows, but it seems like exactly the kind of thing that should get investment. In the meantime we should let her do the work.

People make mistakes all the time. Even VCs (sic!) Argument in the form of "it must be true because they are very smart and have access to experts" is not a good one. The real facts and evidence should be evaluated.

> The real facts and evidence should be evaluated

Yes indeed, and neither the OP nor the commenters in this thread have access to it. That's why threads like this degenerate.

Same thing crossed my mind. I can only assume that the company has long pivoted to another technology, left the ultrasound technology behind and just kept the old homepage (the mentioned WSJ article is from Oct 2014). Or the valley VCs might be really desperate to invest the huge amounts of cash Yellen is printing.

The possibilities you mention (pivot and cheap money) are very real ones in my opinion as well

For spending $10 million out of the $4 billion they got kicking about? Probably not massive due diligence.

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