The secretary problem and investing have one important difference that throws this all out the window - you can meet with multiple startups without rejecting th

The secretary problem and investing have one important difference that throws this all out the window - you can meet with multiple startups without rejecting them, and make a decision when you've met them all (or all the ones you want to meet). There's no requirement in the real world to accept/reject immediately post-interview without any possibility of recall. > Of course, this would be a jerk move. I'd be wasting the time of a lot of founders if I knew I was planning to pass on their startups no matter what. On a macro-level, this isn't a jerk move at all - the other way would have you 'waste' the time of 29 founders instead of 11.