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Re:Google Ventures uses algorithms to approve or kill VC inv... by droopyEyelids on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:06PM (#17569358)
If a significant chunk of VCs invest based on an algorithm following the investments of other VCs running the same algo... positive feedback loop. Juicebox squeezer receives $120m investment.
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Re:Google Ventures uses algorithms to approve or kill VC inv... by oldgradstudent on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:34PM (#17569556)
Supposedly, a lot of this was going on during the (previous) housing bubble.

https://www.wired.com/2009/02/wp-quant/

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Re:Google Ventures uses algorithms to approve or kill VC inv... by taurath on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:22AM (#17572911)
And right now companies are absurdly cash rich and the hardest problem is where to invest the money.
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