2016年Fintech财经35：马修·哈里斯

风险投资家马修·哈里斯相信很多企业家会很好地了解军事战略。“有冲突创业”的贝恩资本风险投资公司董事总经理。“这不是苹果派。这是很难用一束玫瑰破坏“。作为BCV的五人fintech小组组长，哈里斯在他所谓的金融投资起义者超过2.5亿$。有了这样的概念侧翼（从侧面攻击，而不是正面），并考虑到资源部署，在43岁的劝告新贵交易所运营商IEX集团的喜好和人力资源上如何对多少竞争自动化平台Justworks更大的在职人员。“你不建抗敌的当前位置的计划;你建立打击敌人的能力的计划，”他说。“这是一个军事老生常谈，但很多企业家错过了这一点。” Harris’s obsession with military history began during his senior spring at Williams College, when he read The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, the second book in Alistair Horne’s trilogy on 19th- and 20th-century conflicts between France and Germany. After graduating in 1994 with a BA in political economy, he spent a year at consulting firm Bain & Co. before moving to its private equity business. The first deal he worked on was the acquisition by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Co. of TRW’s credit reporting business, later renamed Experian. In 2000, with backing from Bain, Harris co-founded Village Ventures to do early-stage investing. He rejoined Bain in 2012 to oversee Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures’ nine-person New York office. His biggest investment to date: $105 million in AvidXchange, a Charlotte, North Carolina–based company that he says “basically digitizes the invoice flow” for middle-market businesses, part of a $225 million September 2015 financing round led by BCV. Most recently, he invested $3 million in former World Gold Trust Services CEO William Rhind’s GraniteShares, a New York–based company that is building a platform to issue exchange-traded funds. BCV typically makes follow-up investments over time, generally averaging about $25 million per portfolio company.