the.com/undervalued talent
skill the market hasn't priced correctly yet, usually because nobody with power looked closely.
means ability or potential that produces outsized results relative to the cost, attention, or credit it currently receives.
from the phrase migrated from finance, where analysts hunt undervalued stocks, into sports and hiring, where scouts and managers hunt people the obvious metrics miss.
moneyball originoakland athletics won games nobody thought possible, 2002
halo effectpedigree gets credit that raw skill earned
market inefficiencyundervaluation always ends once enough people notice
blind spot biasevaluators overweight what resembles past success
for instance
jeremy lin — unsigned nba player, exploded for 38 points vs lakers, 2012
scottie pippen — drafted 5th, paid far below stars he outproduced for years
vincent van gogh — sold roughly one painting while alive, priceless a century later