Miles Grimshaw

Partner, Thrive Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Miles Grimshaw is an early-stage tech investor known for backing software, developer infrastructure, and AI companies including Airtable, Benchling, Cursor, and GitHub. After starting his venture career at Thrive Capital, he served as a General Partner at Benchmark before rejoining Thrive Capital in 2024.

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Grimshaw: Avoiding growth funds prevents pricing conflicts with founders

“Our job, we're really focused on how do we scale the company, those companies, right? And how, as part of that, having a relationship that doesn't get sort of adulted by this question of the us making another commitment decision. It's like we're in and we're n…”

Miles Grimshaw Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 43:46 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired

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Grimshaw: Being a founder's 'first call' is a low, reactive bar

“There's this trope in the industry, right, which is you want to be the founder's first call. And it's like, I've never really liked it insofar as it's like very reactionary for you. It's like, oh, they'll call me, I'll pick up the phone and respond. It's a low…”

Miles Grimshaw Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 1:14:10 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired

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Benchmark Part I · Acquired Sep 28, 2022 · 4 mentions · from 3:18:34
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