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At the seed stage, it's people that get funded, not ideas.

To what extent do ideas influence your judgement of people? It seems to me that -- for all that you're funding people, not ideas -- it would be very hard to avoid saying "what sort of idiots came up with this idea?" at times. (The opposite, namely forming a positive impression of people based on their having had a brilliant idea, seems also possible but likely far less common.)

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You're right. We care about the idea as much for what it tells us about the people as for its own sake.