Tags: Meta, Incentives, Non-matchmaking, Matchmaking as Market Problem

Under what conditions is matchmaking needed?

• Why does success depend so much on matchmaking?
• What's the context? Startup? Organization? Experimentation?

Matchmaking or Not

• ✓
  • Skill Asymmetry
  • Matchmaking is a market problem
  • Best matchmakers are personal connections
  • Outcome/Performance oriented
  • Free Labor
• ✗
  • In some group scenarios, just as much learning can happen when it's a poor match
    • e.g. requires additional facilitation skills or cultivates virtue
  • Process oriented

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