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From Yale Projects To Thrive Partnership
- Miles describes his path from Yale to joining Thrive via friendships and building simple Rails apps with peers.
- He joined Thrive around 2013 after organically working with the team and spending weekends in New York.
Small Partnership, Big Founder Focus
- Benchmark keeps a small, equal partnership and focuses on deep founder support rather than scale or hierarchy.
- The firm emphasizes being excellent at amplifying founder success over raising very large funds.
Early Bet On Bio Software With Benchling
- Miles recounts investing in Benchling early after noticing the opportunity created by CRISPR and biology's increasing software needs.
- He partnered with scientists connected to Broad Institute and helped Benchling build tools for large-molecule research.