Power Law (Venture Returns)
The distribution of outcomes in a venture portfolio: most investments return less than the money invested, a few return it several times over, and one or two return more than everything else combined. It is why a fund underwrites every investment to the chance of an outlier rather than to a base case, and why a good venture investor is wrong most of the time by design.
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