Hank Vigil spent 25 years as a senior Microsoft executive directly advising CEO Steve Ballmer and architecting major partnerships with companies like Facebook, Nokia, and Yahoo!, giving him unusually deep operator experience in complex dealmaking between large platforms and startups. He focuses on investing in AI tools that augment existing workflows and content formats, particularly seeing opportunity in unlocking value from ubiquitous business tools like Excel and underused knowledge reservoirs in podcasts and other media. Hank Vigil spent 25 years as a senior Microsoft executive directly advising CEO Steve Ballmer and architecting major partnerships with companies like Facebook, Nokia, and Yahoo!, giving him unusually deep operator experience in complex dealmaking between large platforms and startups. He focuses on investing in AI tools that augment existing workflows and content formats, particularly seeing opportunity in unlocking value from ubiquitous business tools like Excel and underused knowledge reservoirs in podcasts and other media.