“Genetics/bioinformatics, education, disruptive business models attacking fat, sleepy incumbents”
“Lynn Jurich and Ed Fenster, SunRun – The culture of a start-up is set with the first ~6 hires and this will permeate all aspects of your organization as you grow and scale”
“Working as a Jackaroo on my grandparents cattle ranch in Australia”
“7 papers on everything from fuel cells to inorganic chemistry”
“Brisbane, Roma, Sydney, Princeton, Boston, San Francisco, Freiberg”
“Compression-wrapping my dad’s arm after he was bitten by a brown snake (2nd most venomous snake in the world), and then rushing him to hospital (he survived)”
“Wazza”
“Lead-climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park”
We like working with founders at the earliest stages of company creation. We almost always have one or two of these small companies working inside our office, within shouting distance of recruiting, marketing, business development services—and, of course, our Partners.