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Thank you for that! What makes you believe that someone or something is an outlier? How much of it is a gut feeling versus observable data, for example?
by vagab0ndk1ng 12y ago
Thank you for that! What makes you believe that someone or something is an outlier? How much of it is a gut feeling versus observable data, for example?
- paul 12y agoNo two are the same, but generally a good sign is if they have outlier behavior in their past. For example, if you won a gold medal in the Olympics, there's a good chance that you would at least get an interview -- the level of determination and persistence required to accomplish something like that would definitely be helpful in founding a startup. (that said, I don't know that we've ever actually funded an Olympian) A more common example would be creating a popular open source project (e.g. the creator of Sails.js is in the current batch).