YC funded Airbnb despite thinking it was a terrible idea because you liked the founders. AI can now predict startup success from pitch decks. Does the Social Radar still beat the algorithm?
The algorithm reads the document; I read the room, and those will never be the same thing.
I've seen this movie before. In 2009, we funded Airbnb despite thinking it was a terrible idea - air mattresses in strangers' apartments? Paul and I looked at each other afterward and said: 'This will never work.' But we'd just spent 45 min...