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Investors care very deeply about social proof. And there's no better social proof than another big investor putting money into an idea.


Then again, if Carmack being interested in something so strongly isn’t social proof enough, maybe you just aren’t very good at being an investor in this particular field.


He was right place right time almost always even if he didn't succeed. Armadillo Aerospace could have been SpaceX in a different timeline. Was clearly on the money with VR.

It's hard to feel bad for Zenimax here, they had opportunities and generational talents and wasted them.




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