David Hornik

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E312: The Power Law of Reputation in Venture Capital · 25 Feb 2026 podcast

I have huge respect.

I think you've done extraordinary work, etc.

And you have a deep relationship with someone else and you think they've done extraordinary work and they and they and and are a fantastic human.

Then by the transit of property of reputation, I believe them to be an astonishing person until proven otherwise.

And so, you know, when I returned to Silicon Valley, I'd been a Stanford undergrad.

I met a bunch of amazing people.

Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo, was in my freshman dorm.

I came back to be a lawyer to represent startups, including Jerry.

um and the very first deal i worked on was yahoo's acquisition of a company called viaweb which was started by paul graham so i had a relationship with paul graham before you know paul graham was paul graham and then when he started y combinator and he had his very first demo day in boston in his backyard i flew out from california was one of the you know 15 vcs in his backyard

So I think you have this opportunity to meet amazing people.

So I came back to Silicon Valley.

I said, oh, I get networking.

You just catch up with the people you thought were amazing.

And then it very quickly became clear to me that that is a confined circle.

You've met those people already.

And so the only way that you can do that is to say, how can I meet

the friends of the people that I think are amazing so that I can then expand that circle.

And if you do that forever more, you will end up with astonishing people in your lives.

And I have no interest in backing not nice guys.

Well, this article was a reaction to a research paper that had been written by professors at Harvard and Stanford Business School.

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