Perhaps, but the overriding salient point is whether or not you can take the investing "ability" out of the individual performant VC, implant it into a random h

Perhaps, but the overriding salient point is whether or not you can take the investing "ability" out of the individual performant VC, implant it into a random human being in the developed world, and still predict a performant future for that individual. I mean, obviously it's not lost on anybody that network, means, opportunity, and luck play a big part of the whole picture. But what I'm starting to think is that you could take investing "ability" out of any successful VC, and leave them with their current station (network, means, opportunity, and luck), and they will perform as admirably as before.