Hunter Walk

Partner & Co-Founder

Investor Bay Area

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Background

Co-founded Homebrew in 2013 with Satya Patel
Director of Product Management at YouTube (2003–2013) — helped build it from Google acquisition to global platform
Previously product leader at Google (AdSense) and Linden Lab (Second Life)
Founded Screendoor LP (backs emerging and diverse VC fund managers)
BA History from Vassar, MBA from Stanford
Prolific writer — hunterwalk.com is one of the most-read VC blogs

Companies

Investment Focus

"Bottom Up Economy" thesis — products that give individuals and small businesses tools to compete with incumbents
New Work tools (remote teams, productivity, education)
Consumer products that monetize through B2B
Next-gen infrastructure
AI as making capabilities previously available only to large tech companies accessible to small teams
Product-centric thinking is paramount — cares about UX and product experience

Notable Investments

AI Agent Relevance

"Bottom Up Economy" thesis maps perfectly to agent infrastructure that democratizes capabilities
If your platform lets a 5-person startup deploy AI agents that previously required 50 engineers, that is a Homebrew pitch
YouTube/Google product background = deep understanding of platform dynamics and developer adoption curves
However: less focused on deep protocol/infrastructure, more on productized software
Smaller checks ($250K–$1M) — better as co-investor or for lean rounds
Concentrated approach means deep operational support
Best positioning: lead with product experience and "so what" for small teams, not technical architecture

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