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Alex Villacorta, PhD is the Chief Data Officer of ResiShares. Prior to co-founding ResiShares, he headed Data and Analytics for HouseCanary and Clear Capital. Alex has a PhD in statistics and applied probability from UCSB, a MS in applied mathematics from Colorado-Boulder, and a BS from the University of Michigan.
The “Why” of Valuation
Building Valuation Discipline by Michael Greene and Alex Villacorta Business school classes often demonstrate concepts like “the wisdom of crowds” or “the Winner’s Curse” by asking students to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar. Miraculously, the average guess of the class is typically quite close to the actual number of beans, while the range of guesses is distributed broadly. Never in question, however, is the precise number
