Ryan McIntyre co-founded Excite as part of the original "Excite 6" at Stanford, launching one of the earliest web search engines and taking it public before the $6.7B @Home merger, giving him rare operator perspective from the first wave of internet search. He's also a lifelong musician with a full recording studio in his basement who describes music as his "meditation," and this personal passion directly influences his investment focus on human-computer interaction and new instrument-like interfaces, including his excitement about companies like ROLI Blocks that create new categories of expressive digital instruments. Ryan McIntyre co-founded Excite as part of the original "Excite 6" at Stanford, launching one of the earliest web search engines and taking it public before the $6.7B @Home merger, giving him rare operator perspective from the first wave of internet search. He's also a lifelong musician with a full recording studio in his basement who describes music as his "meditation," and this personal passion directly influences his investment focus on human-computer interaction and new instrument-like interfaces, including his excitement about companies like ROLI Blocks that create new categories of expressive digital instruments.