How Do You Know? - Altos Ventures
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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain For more than a decade, we have been teaching an annual session of a legendary investment class taught by Professor Jack McDonald. While Jack is sadly no longer with us, we go back every year to answer questions posed by smart, curious, yet skeptical students who get to meet many top institutional investors representing different strategies across both private and public markets. The most prevalent questions tend to be a variation of “how do you know?” Some examples include:…
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