Hurst Lin

Hurst Lin (林欣禾) is a founding partner and managing partner at DCM China, where he has built a reputation as an active, hands-on investor with a deliberately unconventional presence — at a 2023 WAVES conference he appeared in a multicolored jacket and moss-green hair, joking with a 22-year-old founder that the younger generation should dress even more colorfully . His investment style leans toward direct personal engagement: he reportedly exclaimed "Holy shit" upon first seeing text-to-image generation in early 2022, a reaction that preceded DCM's backing of AI platform Tiamat . In a 2024 interview following DCM Ventures' restructuring, Lin framed the firm's core principle as staying committed to "investing in and building startups that represent the future of technology," even as the partnership split its latest fund to better serve LP demands . Elsewhere's Master Dong, in a 2026 conversation about Chinese venture capital's defining personalities, recalled being struck by Lin's line: "Never envy rich people" .