
Michael McBride was the new guy at Google Ventures, but that didn’t stop him from chasing a deal across the world.
It was less than six months after McBride, previously the CRO of GitLab, had joined GV as a general partner. He (like many other investors) was pursuing IT and security data startup Cribl. Despite the competition, McBride believed that the hype around the company was justified and that he was uniquely qualified to be helpful.