Edward Segel built Floating Point on a mix of experience—starting as a quantitative investor at Bridgewater, then working in product and business roles on the founding team of Oscar Health—which shapes his focus on regulated, capital-intensive industries where he looks for efficient, software-like growth rather than growth-at-all-costs spending. He's known for being hands-on with hiring decisions, once pushing a founder to bring on a COO earlier than planned and personally advocating for a standout candidate, and he moved back to Boston from New York during COVID with an investing approach centered on helping startups reach break-even and be ready for liquidity, informed by a background spanning philosophy at Harvard, Symbolic Systems at Stanford, and an MBA from Stanford GSB.