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Fortune
Allie Garfinkle

Sequoia’s Alfred Lin on the art and math of spotting outliers

(Credit: Sequoia Capital)

Alfred Lin doesn’t just accept contradictions; he searches for answers within them.

Less than five minutes after sitting down, he and I are talking about examining contradictory ideas simultaneously. It’s a framework F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote about in 1936: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

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