Hardi Meybaum

General Partner, Matrix Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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Hardi Meybaum is a General Partner at Matrix Partners. He previously founded GrabCAD, a cloud-based collaboration platform for engineering teams that was acquired by Stratasys.

10statements → 4claims → 1claims resolved → 4.6/5average certainty → 1.8/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 1said about them ↓

0 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hardi argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: speaking style how? →

217 words/min while actually speaking · 3.3 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Hardi Meybaum: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 10 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.5/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 3,934 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Hardi Meybaum is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

Everything Hardi Meybaum said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Hardi Meybaum Found Silicon Valley Talent Quality Disappointing During Early Fundraising
“Valley was not that much better. I would say it was even worse in that sense that I met a lot of people there, but I thought that the quality of the people were not great.”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 8:25 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
Insight
Investors Can Assess a Founder's Drive Within Two Minutes, Claims Meybaum
“Literally, it takes two minutes to sit with a founder and you can see that drive or not.”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 18:18 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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
MBA and Junior VC Founders Consistently Failed to Compete With GrabCAD
“I see many times where there were MBAs, junior associated VCs, and coming to try to compete with us, but they always quickly failed after some great original boss.”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 22:32 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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Every VC in London, Boston, and Silicon Valley Initially Rejected GrabCAD
“I met a lot of other VCs in Silicon Valley, and every single VC turned me down, and not only Boston, not only Silicon Valley, but also everyone in London”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 6:20 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
Insight
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…”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 12:21 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
Insight
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…”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 16:23 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
Disclosure
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…”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 25:46 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
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GrabCAD Was Profitable From Day One, Says Founder Hardi Meybaum
“We were actually profitable From the day one”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 3:24 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
Assertion Partly supported
GrabCAD's Design Library Reached Over Three Million Daily Active Engineers
“We built this massive library that has now more than three million engineers using every day that are uploading and downloading designs and reusing each other's designs”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 20:26 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
Disclosure
Hardi Meybaum Stayed in a $50 Motel During GrabCAD Seed Fundraising
“We ended up staying in a mortal that cost 50 dollars a night, and it was hour and a half from Boston”
Hardi Meybaum Oct 5, 2016 ▶ 6:50 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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Appearances (1)

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20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Foun Oct 5, 2016 20m
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