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Re:The Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Who You Might Think by tedunangst on Thursday July 02, 2015 @12:42PM (#9820020)
> The average founder is 38, with a master’s degree and 16 years of work experience.

If we want to predict what the next MZ is going to be like, shouldn't we restrict our training data to the set of successful unicorn founders instead of the set of all founders?

Most startups fail, so it seems this data is most useful for predicting who won't be the next MZ.

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Re:The Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Not Who You Might Think by JoeAltmaier on Thursday July 02, 2015 @12:52PM (#9820086)
Be fair; entrepreneurs are very likely the set that will produce another. The set that predicts who won't be, is the rest.
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