I've Missed the Forest for the Trees

Mark reed was a known quantity venture capitalist, catnip. Heh'd appeared reluctantly on the cover of usa to day next to his portia. People with money trusted him because he had a track record of making them money. They know that what he does isn't teachable, isn't reproducible. Hell, it's barely even explicable. In the end, the impossible jeff bazos, steve jobbs, read hastings are all geniuses who did something no one thought was possible. If you do that once, your odds of doing it again are expedentially higher. Ivy p funded us not because our forecast was good or our pitch was perfect