Max Gazor is a four-time Midas List investor at CRV who brings a buyer's perspective from his M&A leadership roles at Oracle and Cisco, where he identified and executed acquisitions in enterprise technologies. He focuses on data infrastructure and cybersecurity companies with a customer-first approach, backing founders who build products that practitioners love rather than just top-down enterprise sales stories.

• Focus on investing at the earliest possible stage, often backing founders when the company is just a concept or vision. He highlights examples like investing in CloudGenix and Respond Software when they were nothing more than a slide deck without a name yet.
• Strong preference for high-conviction, concentrated portfolios rather than diversifying across many small bets. He emphasizes that his new firm targets only ten companies per fund so they can go all-in on partnership, contrasting this with firms that invest in fifty or more startups and hope for the best.
• Deep interest in frontier technology, specifically the intersection of AI, robotics, and physical intelligence. He recently noted that multimodal models will be critical for advancements in robotics and is actively backing companies working on open superintelligence.
• Enthusiasm for enterprise infrastructure and low-code platforms that solve fundamental business problems. He frequently points to Airtable as a prime example of a generational company, suggesting its addressable market is effectively the entire software market itself.
• Emphasis on the importance of structural discipline and patience in building companies. He warns that corporate governance is an underrated strength and explicitly advises candidates not to join startups that lack strong board oversight.