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#284 Sebastian Mallaby - The Mindsets of Venture Capitals All-Time Greats

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

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The Power Law and the Sugar Man Phenomenon

In the us, you can fail totally. In south africa, you can succeed. Success feeds upon success and the most loaded songs are more likely to be successful. And so that got me thinking about how venture capital could have an investment theory after a partnership in business starts out with multiple winners. It's not necessarily the quality of the winne that determines whether or not it will go on to do well. The power law is what we call 'the feedback loop'

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