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Matt Hoffman

Matt Hoffman

Partner & Head of Talent at venture firm M13, coaching founders on hiring and culture; former Head of People at DigitalOcean.

Sep 15, 2026

1:45
Would you be willing to share with our audience a little bit more about M13 and what your role is there and even give us not necessarily a full resume review, but like a little bit more of a snapshot of where
1:56
you're at? M13 is a venture firm.
2:00
We invest at the earlier stages, which is competitive.
2:03
kind of a little bit borderline to use to be able to say like seed series a typically we're like the first real institutional check into a company we like to say we invest in transformational founders at the frontier of technology obviously say that we think that's true for us what really makes us unique is that most of the team at m13 comes from an operating background even most of the partners And we overinvest in operational expertise and operational resources to help founders get up to J-curve faster.
2:36
Founders are amazing.
2:37
They have amazing ideas.
2:38
They're building amazing technology.

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18:00
Could you give us kind of a quick thumbnail sketch around what are some of those most important things at the earliest stages leading to the later stages?

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