As investors, we’re bound by numbers and metrics, data that reinforces our understanding of a project, and it’s future growth potential, only in the data we find the sanity and conviction we need to back an idea, and partake in making it a reality. The more time spent in this industry, the more a nuanced, abstract reality starts to form, a behavior comparable to that seen in tribes converting into agricultural societies, feudal, religious, kingdoms and in the present, nation states. That one ...

As investors, we’re bound by numbers and metrics, data that reinforces our understanding of a project, and it’s future growth potential, only in the data we find the sanity and conviction we need to back an idea, and partake in making it a reality. The more time spent in this industry, the more a nuanced, abstract reality starts to form, a behavior comparable to that seen in tribes converting into agricultural societies, feudal, religious, kingdoms and in the present, nation states. That one ...