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The Importance of Social Capital in Venture
When I left Facebook in 2014, Facebook had really been on the cutting edge of sort of developing what we consider data science now right like back in 2007 and wait nobody was doing it at all. And then through that that time period, you know, by the time I left there were like hundreds of data scientists at Facebook. Right. And so we had really gone from like not using it at all to figuring out how to use it. But for us at social capital if we build a bunch of data to help with sourcing it was kind of marginal because of the quality of the existing investors.