I disagree with the article. Basically what it&#x27;s implying is that we should stop giving small amounts of funding to many talented people and, instead, give large amounts of funding to few geniuses.<p>The problem with this is that you can&#x27;t know who is a genius before you invest. Was Steve Jobs obviously a &quot;Genius&quot; before he started Apple? No. Even after running Apple for a few years, he was fired because some important people saw him as incompetent (I.e. Not a genius). It took many years before he was able to prove himself.<p>If investors started spending more on fewer people, it would mean that fewer &quot;geniuses&quot; would be discovered.<p>If anything, I think Silicon Valley is too much like Florence; VCs are pouring billions into unicorns headed by so called &quot;geniuses&quot; while depraving unknown geniuses the ability to prove themselves on the market.<p>Also, I think during he renaissance, very smart&#x2F;talented people would have stood out from the crowd. If you go to SV, smart people are everywhere, it&#x27;s even harder to identify genius in such an environment.