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An investor's case for backing technical founders who can pivot

Every says Factorial Capital managing partner Matt Hartman expects early-stage startups to pivot and backs technical founders who can adapt.

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On The Every Podcast, Factorial Capital founder and managing partner Matt Hartman discusses how he spots new opportunities and decides which founders’ insights to back. Every says he favors technical founders who can adapt as startups pivot. He also talks about building Ghost Pepper, an open-source voice-to-text app, and how vibe-coding his own app gave him new respect for SaaS.

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Every 📧@every.@MattHartman assumes every early-stage startup will pivot. That's why he backs technical founders who can "move with where the world goes." Now founder and managing partner of Factorial Capital, Hartman was part of the Betaworks team that wrote @huggingface's first check in 2016—when it was still a chatbot app for teenagers, before it became the largest community for open-source AI, set to be acquired by @nvidia for $13 billion. On this week's episode of The Every Podcast, he tells @NataliaZarina how he spots new opportunities, what makes a founder's insight worth backing, and why vibe-coding his own app gave him a new respect for SaaS. Introduction How Hugging Face went from a teen chatbot to the home of open-source AI The three decisions that set Hugging Face on its path Hartman's approach to finding the newly technically possible Why Hartman backs technical founders How Factorial’s portfolio founders source its next deals Why faster iteration makes product insight the most valuable skill What Hartman learned building Ghost Pepper, an open-source voice-to-text app Hartman's current theses, from non-language models to full-stack AI apps Why the best founders right now are experimenting1h
Dan Shipper@danshipperRT @every: .@MattHartman assumes every early-stage startup will pivot. That's why he backs technical founders who can "move with where the…1h
Natalia@NataliaZarina“The best people I’ve seen building things are playing” says @MattHartman, who wrote the first check into @huggingface (sold to Nvidia for ~$13B) His approach is to find the newly technically possible, then find the founders already tinkering there. He's backed @factoryai, @modal & more. Always a treat to chat & special shoutout to @mignano & @alxai_ referenced on the pod! 👋33m
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    Every 📧@every.@MattHartman assumes every early-stage startup will pivot. That's why he backs technical founders who can "move with where the world goes." Now founder and managing partner of Factorial Capital, Hartman was part of the Betaworks team that wrote @huggingface's first check in 2016—when it was still a chatbot app for teenagers, before it became the largest community for open-source AI, set to be acquired by @nvidia for $13 billion. On this week's episode of The Every Podcast, he tells @NataliaZarina how he spots new opportunities, what makes a founder's insight worth backing, and why vibe-coding his own app gave him a new respect for SaaS. Introduction How Hugging Face went from a teen chatbot to the home of open-source AI The three decisions that set Hugging Face on its path Hartman's approach to finding the newly technically possible Why Hartman backs technical founders How Factorial’s portfolio founders source its next deals Why faster iteration makes product insight the most valuable skill What Hartman learned building Ghost Pepper, an open-source voice-to-text app Hartman's current theses, from non-language models to full-stack AI apps Why the best founders right now are experimenting1h
    Dan Shipper@danshipperRT @every: .@MattHartman assumes every early-stage startup will pivot. That's why he backs technical founders who can "move with where the…1h
    Natalia@NataliaZarina“The best people I’ve seen building things are playing” says @MattHartman, who wrote the first check into @huggingface (sold to Nvidia for ~$13B) His approach is to find the newly technically possible, then find the founders already tinkering there. He's backed @factoryai, @modal & more. Always a treat to chat & special shoutout to @mignano & @alxai_ referenced on the pod! 👋33m
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