Factorial Capital 创始人 Matt Hartman 谈为何技术型创始人更能应对创业转型
The Best Founders Have Something AI Can’t Tell Them
Factorial Capital 创始人 Matt Hartman 在 The Every Podcast 中表示，几乎每家创业公司最终都会转型，因此他更青睐具备技术优势和实战洞察的创始人。他以 Hugging Face 从青少年聊天机器人应用发展为最大开源 AI 社区、并将被 Nvidia 以约 130 亿美元收购为例，说明技术型创始人更能随世界变化而调整方向。
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Oct 14, 2026 · 9 min read
Nearly every startup pivots eventually, says Matt Hartman, founder of Factorial Capital, so he backs founders with a technical edge and hard-earned insights who are best equipped to navigate a change in markets. On this week’s episode of The Every Podcast, he tells Natalia Quintero how he finds those founders and why vibe coding his own app gave him new respect for paying for software. Plus: a field report from a 28-person agricultural technology startup that runs on agents in Slack, Becky Isjwara on using the Every Agent as her onboarding buddy, and seven new Thesis Statements.
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Why technical founders win when startups pivot
In 2016, Hugging Face started as a chatbot app for teenagers. Today, it’s the largest community for open-source AI and is set to be acquired by Nvidia for about $13 billion. Matt Hartman, who was part of the Betaworks team that wrote its first check, sees a lesson in that transformation: Back technical founders who can “move with where the world goes.”
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