Bryan is a Partner at Index Ventures. He focuses on enterprise investments with an emphasis on design. Bryan is particularly interested in the consumerization of enterprise and the use of design to improve the approachability of highly technical products. He began his career at Palantir Technologies, where he worked as an Engineer and Product Manager on work that spanned federated search, data ingestion, data collaboration, and access control. Following Palantir, Bryan worked as Product Manager at MemSQL, where he focused on deployability and user interfaces.
As companies shift priorities out of fear of recession, there may be chances for technology that once got little attention to find new life.
There are the areas that you’re looking at from a net-new investment perspective and then there’s how you’re advising your portfolio companies through what is a pretty turbulent period of time where obviously the market has changed dramatically. Certainly, for the companies that have started in the past three years, this is a pretty big shift. On the net-new investment side, it’s really a return to “keep it simple.”