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Hunter Walk

Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew · 1 appearance on the record.

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Hunter Walk co-founded Homebrew with Satya Patel, backing breakout startups including Chime, Plaid, Gusto, and Cruise before shifting the firm into a self-funded evergreen vehicle. Prior to venture capital, he led consumer product management at YouTube after working on Google AdSense and Linden Lab's Second Life.

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6 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

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Insight
Rushing into equal co-founder partnerships after brief dating is horrible
“The worst are the people who, like, think that you have to, and they do, like, two weeks of founder dating, and, you know, then become equal partners. It's horrible.”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 16:38 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
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Founders with specific domain expertise offer value when cold-emailing investors
“When you have very specific knowledge and expertise, you're not just asking, you are already exchanging. Even if they don't need your help right now, they're adding you as somebody that they might be able to reach to in the future”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 5:22 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
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Hunter Walk: Founder team dynamics are harder to read over Zoom
“The challenge I think sometimes, especially when you're talking to, you know, teams that are two or three founders, is I really care about the dynamics between those founders, and sometimes it's harder to read those across three different Zoom windows than it …”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 6:36 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
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Homebrew backs single founders who reserve equity for future founding teams
“Well, of course many of the companies we invest in have, you know, founder teams of two or three people already together. We've also made investments where it's a single founder who is then going to build what they call a founding team around them, and is sett…”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 14:31 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
Insight
Stacking convertible notes often causes unanticipated and severe equity dilution
“It can often feel like free money until it converts, and then you're trying to figure out all these notes with different caps, and different discount rates, and different interest accrued. Yeah. And all of a sudden you realize you sold off more of your company…”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 24:43 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
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Cold emails showing pre-funding progress go a long way with investors
“I have a big belief that a good cold email, proof of being the type of entrepreneur who has developed something and even without funding, you know, has started to build a business goes a long way in the mind of an investor.”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 28:32 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline
Insight
Retired industry executives are a fertile, untapped source for angel checks
“I sometimes find that for these types of businesses late career or retired executives from industries that this might touch are fertile for, you know, angel type checks, even if they don't think of themselves as angel investors.”
Hunter Walk Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 29:12 #98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline

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#98 Hello! You’ve Reached The Pitch Helpline Mar 4, 2025 7m
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