Tom Hulme is a founder-turned-VC who studied physics, ran a car business, and founded a magnetic filtration company before becoming a design director at IDEO, where he helped establish business design as a discipline in Europe and pioneered open innovation platforms like OpenIDEO. He built a 5x DPI angel portfolio with outcomes like 255x on Robinhood before joining GV, where he focuses on clock speed as an investment lens—evaluating how quickly teams can iterate rather than just runway length—and backs both foundational AI infrastructure and fast-scaling applications even when they compete with Alphabet. Tom Hulme is a founder-turned-VC who studied physics, ran a car business, and founded a magnetic filtration company before becoming a design director at IDEO, where he helped establish business design as a discipline in Europe and pioneered open innovation platforms like OpenIDEO. He built a 5x DPI angel portfolio with outcomes like 255x on Robinhood before joining GV, where he focuses on clock speed as an investment lens—evaluating how quickly teams can iterate rather than just runway length—and backs both foundational AI infrastructure and fast-scaling applications even when they compete with Alphabet.