| Depending on how this is organized, this can be a spectacularly BAD idea. Investors would love it because they now have visual confirmation of who all are the "hot" matches. I bet everyone other than the Sequoias would be straining to look at who the hot startups are...and completely ignore the ones in front of them. For the long tail of a YC batch - the ones that are not hotly contested - this could be a disaster. Previously, investors would be forced to actually look at a startup and decide in isolation. Now they can simply look at the Big VC. I can completely see why investors would love this. One might as well make public the interest match list and rank it by order of "likes" received. People are perfectly capable of driving up and down the Bay Area. Guess what - we get a few free meals and coffees out of it. EDIT: guess what, you can bring associates to tailgate Sequoia & A16Z investors. EDIT2: what you guys might be trying to do is be helpful. For example, this lets you force-schedule investor meetings for startups that had no investor interest and term it as "the AI did it!". But I'm not sure if that will be really helpful ... at the cost of drastically reducing FOMO factor for most other startups. |