"We funded a guy once who looked like Mark but ended up doing badly, and when PG was asked by a reporter how to fool him, he said that apparently this was one w

"We funded a guy once who looked like Mark but ended up doing badly, and when PG was asked by a reporter how to fool him, he said that apparently this was one way. His real point was that looking like Zuckerberg means nothing--that you can look remarkably like him and still fail miserably. " To me the entire "look like Zuck" is more than the physical look. It's the harvard attendance, of a certain age, and having certain interests and mannerisms as well as background. Truth is if you go to an Ivy or top school and view the student body you will see a certain look and feel. Doesn't mean that people with the same look don't attend a state school or community college, doesn't mean there aren't exceptions at the Ivy, but the look and feel is definitely there. Perhaps they end up looking that way after the first week as they get assimilated. There is no doubt that people respond to visual cues and assign halo to them rightly or wrongly. Or stereotypes whatever you want to call it. Go ahead in and try to pitch YC looking like a guy who runs a wholesale company and is 58 from the lower east side in NYC and doesn't look the part. It would almost certainly be, for lack of a super clear winning idea, an uphill battle.