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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

And so I'd have to read hundreds and hundreds of emails of the pain and suffering they're going through. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table.