[r--man]

This was such a delighting read for me. Not because it is a success story, but because of the way it talks about the human interactions. Thinking back, it is true that most of my very seemingly random leads came from people who were weakly connected with me and they would be considered equals.

Perhaps beyond that point of a weak connection is why SV is different than everywhere else. The author was ready to take a position in a startup out of the basic knowledge of the founder and the general idea. This is practically unheard of where I live. Yes, everyone wants to think it's like that, but in reality they will be asking for a "data room" from a week-old startup.

Yet again, you can't blame people because I don't know many intern-to-$20B-Adobe-exit around here... and there goes a cycle

[peter_l_downs]

> Thinking back, it is true that most of my very seemingly random leads came from people who were weakly connected with me and they would be considered equals.

For anyone else reading (sounds like the OP might already be aware), you may enjoy "The Strength of Weak Ties" by Mark Granovetter, a legendary paper in the field of network science, which describes exactly this phenomenon.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/pub/papers/granovetter73ties.pd...

[barrenko]

Appreciate it!

[la64710]

Oh I promise it is not so simple.