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Counterfactual Testing

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20VC: The Best AI Companies Have Unique Data Acquisition Strategies | Will Simile Kill Kalshi, Polymarkets and NASDAQ | How to Sign Fortune 500 Companies As Customers in Weeks with Joon Sung Park, Simile

Joon Sung Park argues that the best AI companies win through defensible data acquisition, and Simile is building a foundation model of human behavior trained on transaction, observational, and experimental data rather than web text alone. He also lays out a vision for simulation as a premium decision product that can beat prediction by showing how outcomes happen and how to change them.