[jammur]

I think you misinterpreted that. PG said funding decisions aren't made based on similarity to the people making the funding decision.

John Doerr is saying that sometimes one of factors in making a funding decision is similarity to other massively successful founders, not the people making the funding decisions. PG has been pretty open about the fact that pattern matching to other successful founders is very common.

[makomk]

The other massively successful founders are also incredibly similar to the people making the funding decisions, though - in fact, quite often they are the people making those decisions.

[abalone]

Do you really think that interpretation would improve PG's position? That pattern matching based on gender and race is "very common"? Are you implying that is ok so long as it's the race/gender of other founders?

Thankfully PG does not actually take as extreme a position as Doerr. He merely downplays the existence of it in the VC community.

[jammur]

I think you've already made up your mind about PG, and there's nothing I can say that will change that. So I just won't say anything.