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That's a great one! I tried to avoid companies that were more than a decade or so old, with a couple exceptions like Lynda/Epic. My concern was that examples l
by replicatorblog 9y ago
That's a great one! I tried to avoid companies that were more than a decade or so old, with a couple exceptions like Lynda/Epic.
My concern was that examples like that, or Amazon which only raised $8M, are such crazy outliers and relied on strong timing, amazing founders, and other good fortune, that it made them hard to be approachable. That said—I'll make sure to give MS a headnod in the next revision!
- pacaro 9y agoIn a sense these are all crazy outliers, regardless of era. This is the essence of survivorship bias.