John Murphy is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Hyperplane Venture Capital who broke from his multi-generation accounting family tradition to pursue venture capital, bringing together his background as both a musician and former Grant Thornton accountant to frame entrepreneurship as both art and science. He specializes in AI and data-driven software investments from pre-seed through Series A, comparing AI's current moment to the internet in terms of innovation potential but like the cloud in terms of economic impact, while emphasizing patience and marathon-like endurance as key qualities for early-stage investing.