Andrew Gershfeld follows a scientist-to-founder-to-VC path, having worked on acoustic-optics hardware before founding and selling GlavSkidka, which gives him deep founder empathy and helps him speak the same language as entrepreneurs from personal experience being "at the steering wheel." He focuses on "anti-fragile" founders who become stronger under stress rather than just resilient ones, and in AI deals specifically prioritizes domain experts who can move fast to product-market fit over pure technologists, backing companies that embed as workflow-native "co-workers" rather than just tools.