Matrix Partners
8 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2016 by Josh Hannah · said 49 times in 14 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (39), Nick Beim (2), Rory O'Driscoll (1), Ilya Sukhar (1), Hardi Meybaum (1), Elad Gil (1), David Frankel (1), Adam D'Augelli (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
- 20VC: Airtable's Howie Liu on Potential Consolidation In The Collaboration Tools Market, The Transition From Peacetime To Wartime CEO & How To Make The Move To Remote Work Successful; The Process Beyond The Tools
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Matrix's Ilya Sukhar on How The Seed Ecosystem Could Be Optimised, Why The Bar For The Break-Out Series A Has Risen & The Art of Effective Referencing
- 20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 27 mentions in 4 episodes 7 per episode
- 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
- 20VC: Why The Best CEO's Are The Best Capital Allocators, How You Can Build A Business In A Space You Are Not Passionate About & When Is The Right Time To Put The Pedal To The Metal with Josh Hannah, General Partner @ Matrix Ventures
- 20VC: What Makes A Great marketplace Founder, The Key Metrics Marketplace Success Is Centred On & 3 Ways To Prove To Investors You Are A Domain Expert with Karthik Sridharan, Founder & CEO @ Kinnek
- 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about Matrix Partners, oldest first
Oct 3, 2016 positive
Oct 3, 2016 negative
Hannah: Venture boards should stay out of pricing and product decisions
“And then there's a whole host of decisions that boards weigh in on, you know, on specific initiatives or products or pricing or management, you know, all these things that I think they should probably, the board should largely stay out of and just put great pe…”
Oct 5, 2016 bullish
Matrix Partners Invested in YC's SketchDeck Because Meybaum Needed the Product
“I have two investments that I've done recently that are not public yet, but I will still mention this, the SketchTech deal. It's a YC company that I spoke to earlier, and I said yes because I would have used that product. I would love to have that product when…”
Oct 5, 2016
Thesis-Driven Sourcing Builds Pattern Recognition Faster Than Horizontal Evaluation
“I've started to select very specific fields where I'm going in, instead of being very horizontal and seeing everything that comes into the door, I'm, I've become very thesis driven. So I go and look very specific vectors and I try to go and find every single c…”
Oct 5, 2016 negative
Venture Capital Lacks Feedback Loops Due to Five-to-Seven Year Deal Cycles
“There's just no feedback loop in, in VC. You don't know if you're good at your job because, okay, you can measure yourself if you're doing deals, but you just don't know if those deals become good till five, six, seven years. And you need to do a lot of work w…”
Sep 9, 2019 neutral
Sep 9, 2019
Matrix Partners does not invest in Series B or later rounds
“At least at Matrix, we have a very We really don't do any Series Bs at this point, and certainly nothing later, and so we don't have the luxury of buying up ownership over, like, four or five rounds. We're not going to really increase our ownership dramaticall…”
May 26, 2025 negative
Matrix Partners signed an Airwallex term sheet then revoked it
“But I think one of the founders of the VC, that is the metrics partners, and they give the term sheet they signed, and they took it back. Yeah, so they basically said I had a call with the founder after they signed a term sheet, and they were like, oh, I don't…”