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Hi there,
Folks have been talking about using data to assess the health/traction of private tech companies for a while now.
We at CB Insights were initially funded by a National Science Foundation SBIR grant to tackle this. So we built our Mosaic score to try to track private company health. It rates companies across 3 dimensions:
It’s done pretty well. In 2015, we worked with the New York Times to identify 50 future unicorns, and as of February 2019, 24 (48% of our picks) hit the $1B mark.
But the one “M” missing from the Mosaic model is Management.
And so we’ve wondered if we can build a score to understand if individuals or a team are exceptional. There are some basic signals that we know folks use around credentials/pedigree, aka “pattern matching”:
- School, e.g. Stanford, Ivy League
- Former employers, e.g. Xooglers
But if you were building a score to assess team/individual exceptionalism, what would the less obvious signals be?
More on this below. |
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