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Transcript: ‘How Hugging Face's Investor Spots Winners'
'The Every Podcast' with Matt Hartman, founder and managing partner at Factorial Capital
Oct 14, 2026 · 31 min read
The transcript of The Every Podcast with Matt Hartman is below. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Timestamps
- Introduction: 00:00:00
- How Hugging Face went from a teen chatbot to the home of open-source AI: 00:05:06
- The three decisions that set Hugging Face on its path: 00:09:52
- Hartman’s approach to finding the newly technically possible: 00:12:49
- Why Hartman backs technical founders: 00:18:10
- How Factorial’s portfolio founders source its next deals: 00:21:10
- Why faster iteration makes product insight the most valuable skill: 00:27:09
- What Hartman learned building Ghost Pepper, an open-source voice-to-text app: 00:34:28
- Hartman’s current theses, from non-language models to full-stack AI apps: 00:40:02
- Why the best founders right now are experimenting 00:44:14
Transcript
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