2016 Fintech Finance 35：Matthew Harris

风险资本家马修哈里斯相信许多企业家会做得很好地了解军事战略。“企业家精神发生冲突，”贝恩首都企业董事总经理说。“这不是苹果派。很难用一束玫瑰扰乱。“作为BCV的五个人Fintech团队负责人，哈里斯在他所谓的金融叛乱活动中投入超过2.5亿美元。与这样的概念一样侧翼（从侧面攻击而不是正面）和资源部署，43岁的概念建议了更加竞争的新闻交换运营商IEX集团和人力资源自动化平台的Joverworks如何竞争更大的现任者。“你不会对敌人的当前位置建立一个计划;你解释说，你建立了一个违背敌人的能力的计划。“那是一个军事陈词滥调，但很多企业家都错过了这一点。” 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.