20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners
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🗓️ 5 October 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Hardi Meybaum is a General Partner @ Matrix Partners and similar to Josh Hardi is a natural born entrepreneur. Prior to becoming a VC Hardi was a Founder of GrabCAD where he built the company into the world’s leading cloud-based collaboration platform for engineering teams to manage, share, and view CAD files. He sold GrabCAD to Stratasys in 2014 for a reported 100m dollars, and continued to lead GrabCAD for the next year.
In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How Hardi made the transition from founding GrabCAD to becoming a General Partner @ Matrix?
2.) When times were really hard for Hardi in making the move to the US, what were the big elements that drive him to continue? What stopped him from giving up?
3.) What does Hardi's time allocation split look like? How does he look to optimise this?
4.) How much of a role has David Skok played in Hardi's progression? What are the key takeaways from the mentorship?
5.) What are the right reasons to start a company? How does Hardi assess founder product fit?
Items Mentioned In Today’s Show:
Hardi’s Fave Book: Deep Work: Rules For Focussed Success
Hardi’s Fave Blog: David Skok: For Entrepreneurs
Hardi’s Most Recent Investment: SketchDeck
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Part 2 of this very special feature week of Matrix Partners on the 20-minute VC |
| 0:04.6 | with your host Harry Stebbings at H. Stebbings on Snapchat. And if you add me to stay on Snapchat, |
| 0:09.4 | that's Wednesday the 5th of October. I'll send you a snap with a secret code that gives you 20% off |
| 0:14.5 | Saster annual 2017 tickets. My word, how enticing. But back to the show and following our episode |
| 0:20.1 | with Josh Hannah on Monday, I'm delighted to welcome one of Josh's back to the show and following our episode with Josh Hannah on Monday, |
| 0:21.5 | I'm delighted to welcome one of Josh's partners to the show, Hardy Maybaum. Now, Hardy is a general |
| 0:26.0 | partner at Matrix Partners. And similar to Josh, Hardy is a natural-born entrepreneur. Prior to becoming |
| 0:31.4 | a VC, Hardy was a founder of GrabCAD, where he built the company into the world's leading |
| 0:35.9 | cloud-based collaboration platform |
| 0:37.6 | for engineering teams to manage, share, and view CAD files. He sold GrabCAD to Stratasys in 2014 |
| 0:43.7 | for a reported $100 million and continued to leak GrabCad for the next year. Now, I have to say, |
| 0:49.1 | Hardy's StoryStay is one of immensely inspiring material, where he founded a company, moved to the US, and made it happen |
| 0:56.1 | all due to his immense ability and determination, and it really is inspiring to us all. |
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