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by pcrh 48 days ago
For those that pg has sponsored it has happened a few times out of ~5,000. Better odds than the lottery, for sure.
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Because he sponsored those who already have something really valuable, and not just anyone.
I would not compare to lottery because a lottery ticket is bought at pure chance whereas these startup are taken onboard after very thorough audit.
He says ~30 out of 6500 companies which if you estimate two founder per company comes out at 1/433.