When pattern recognition becomes pattern replication

Last week I hit you with some heavy numbers - $510 billion in VC funding, 87% of that capital concentrated in just four regions, and more capital chasing fewer companies than ever. This week, I want to talk about why. Underneath all that data is a story investors build before they ever look at your business, and it all comes down to pattern recognition.

Speaking of stories…the joy of picking a funny company name is that you’re always asked what it means. I love sharing the origin story of the Scroobious name. I named my company after a poem by Edward Lear. In it, a group of animals encounters a strange new creature, the “Scroobious Pip,” and spends the whole poem trying to classify it.

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