I did the first 20 from each column of your spreadsheet, and got a different result. I hid your answers before writing mine. My rubric was different; instead of focusing on social value, I focused on what type of business relations a company has. You can see my answers here. These are all very noisy, and I’m not entirely confident I didn’t have rating-drift between when I did the YC ones and when I did the S&P ones, but I got a slightly higher score for S&P companies.
In my rubric, things that mean low scores:
You have a Compliance department
A significant portion of your business is oriented towards appeasing gatekeepers (as opposed to there being no relevant gatekeepers, or fighting them not on their normal terms)
The price is not disclosed until you talk to a salesperson
You need your business partners but they don’t need you
Things that mean high scores:
You are creating a new market
Dealing with gatekeepers is not a major concern
Your customers take your price or leave it
You do not operate a call center
Your business partners need you but you don’t need them
We had maximally-different scores (2 vs −2) for Gusto, Microsoft, Facebook, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The correlation between our scores was 0.6 for the YC companies, −0.16 for the S&P 500 companies.
I did the first 20 from each column of your spreadsheet, and got a different result. I hid your answers before writing mine. My rubric was different; instead of focusing on social value, I focused on what type of business relations a company has. You can see my answers here. These are all very noisy, and I’m not entirely confident I didn’t have rating-drift between when I did the YC ones and when I did the S&P ones, but I got a slightly higher score for S&P companies.
In my rubric, things that mean low scores:
You have a Compliance department
A significant portion of your business is oriented towards appeasing gatekeepers (as opposed to there being no relevant gatekeepers, or fighting them not on their normal terms)
The price is not disclosed until you talk to a salesperson
You need your business partners but they don’t need you
Things that mean high scores:
You are creating a new market
Dealing with gatekeepers is not a major concern
Your customers take your price or leave it
You do not operate a call center
Your business partners need you but you don’t need them
We had maximally-different scores (2 vs −2) for Gusto, Microsoft, Facebook, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The correlation between our scores was 0.6 for the YC companies, −0.16 for the S&P 500 companies.
Nice, this is interesting!
I don’t understand what this means and what it’s measuring.