Michael Gilroy
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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How did we do that?
It wasn't easy.
I've been telling everybody who will listen, everything is harder and has taken longer than I thought it would, but it's a million times more rewarding every single day coming into work, if we can even call it that, working with these founders.
Almost out of the gate, we had our first two big yeses on our LPAC, real big checks to us, and that certainly helped quite a bit.
You ask why, and I think what our investors have seen is,
Of the 12 deals that I did at my prior firm, Goko and I co-invested on eight of those 12.
And we kind of fell into this motion where, and accidentally, where I'm a finance person, I was a banker, and I've been an investor my whole life.
I would go in and underwrite the specific P&L, the market structure.
Hey, here's what we think this opportunity can look like.
Hey, Gokul, there's nobody in the world with an operating background like your own.
Can you go spend time with the team to look at team structure, plans around that, product velocity, product potential?
And if those two things come back as a yes, of those eight companies, the results were pretty dang good.
And they see the fact that
Many of us have worked together directly for a long time.
This is the second time I hired Chase Packard, who has become one of my best friends in the world and obviously close business partner.
And then Alex Gorgoni, who was most recently at TCV.
When I sent an email out, we needed somebody who was the best in the world at what they do, focused on the enterprise, true enterprise software, sales motion, and overall, obviously, business model.
His name came back to me from like seven different people.
And when I sent that email, I said, hey, I need somebody with what I just said, best in the world at what they do, and two, an exceptional human being who will work well with me.
And I only sent this to people that I know really well.
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