Forrest Hardy works in product at HP Poly while also investing through Earl Grey Capital, and he built his way into venture through roles at Seaplane Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, and Seamless Capital alongside an MBA from Texas McCombs, where Seaplane publicly praised his contributions as a Venture Fellow. He also built a custom GPT for startup market research, follows AI infrastructure and agentic software companies like Archetype AI and crewAI, and brings an engineering and product background to his investing work alongside mentoring and nonprofit involvement.