It's really easy to overfit and create biased algorithms, especially with how small their 'startup' training set is likely to be. That is, of course, if they'

It's really easy to overfit and create biased algorithms, especially with how small their 'startup' training set is likely to be. That is, of course, if they're doing ML and not just encoding their own investor 'intuition' into software. Still, I agree the weight of personal relationships and human-powered-decision-making guiding the 'tech' industry is a bit ironic.