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VC arbitrage opportunity #3482: Non-super-high confidence founders

VC seems to involve a great deal of reference points and pattern matching. Much of this I understand and respect. But I have a nagging feeling that investors overshoot in their collective bias, in a few ways. 

One of these suspicions is that American investors bias too strongly against entrepreneurs who don’t melt the walls with their cold, hard gazes of ultra-confidence. Especially when it’s mostly a cultural thing. Of course, where there’s undervalue from one, there’s opportunity for others.

Sure, confidence is probably linked to venture success. But to the extent that funding success seems to indicate?

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That started with building low cost water technologies in Senegal and Ethiopia. More recently I worked with AngelList to help startups and investors date better. I'm currently working with Greylock.

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