Mike McMahon’s view of investing comes from working in Wall Street-style brokerage and helping scale GE Capital’s lending and leasing businesses, and he connects his interest in independent, accountable founders to his immigrant grandparents who ran restaurants and clubs in Pittsburgh and to being raised by his mother. At Jump Capital, he pays close attention to the CFO’s office, capital markets, and workflow automation, believes banks’ real strength lies in decades of built-up operational complexity that AI can help make sense of rather than replace, and looks for founders who rebuild their workflows around AI while often investing outside the usual coastal venture hubs.