Matt Hartman backs technical founders who can pivot as markets shift
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Factorial Capital founder Matt Hartman says nearly every startup pivots, and he backs founders with a technical edge who can move with the market.
In a Every Podcast episode, he cites Hugging Face, which began as a teen chatbot app in 2016 and is set to be acquired by Nvidia for about $13 billion. He also says that building his own app with vibe coding gave him new respect for paying for software.
Hartman describes how he finds such founders in the same episode.
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AIFactorial Capital founder Matt Hartman says nearly every startup pivots and he backs founders with a technical edge who can move with where the world goes. He cites Hugging Face, which started as a teen chatbot app in 2016 and is set to be acquired by Nvidia for about $13 billion. The episode of The Every Podcast also covers how he finds those founders and why vibe coding his own app gave him new respect for paying for software.
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