[jules]

I've wonder if the videos aren't a dangerous way to subject yourself to biases. It's well known for example that people judge attractive people more positively. The same probably goes for a good presentation style. Now I'm sure that being attractive or being a good presenter have some predictive value on startup success simply because everybody has these biases, also the people the startup will later make deals with or otherwise interact with. But assuming that the application judges have the same level of bias as the rest of us, since there are many other factors besides attractiveness or presentation style, the bias would be bigger than its predictive value. It would perhaps be an interesting experiment blank out the names of the applicants and to let half of the judges read a transcript of the video instead of watching the video itself, and see if the judgements are different.