It was truly incredible to join Overture VC in Washington, D.C., last week for their first-ever Overture Ventures Investor Day. 🏛 An Incredible Program Overture brought together its limited partners (LPs), founders, and leading public sector officials including Ali Zaidi, Jennifer Granholm, Ben Rhodes, Jigar Shah, and Ed Markey for a conversation about climate. 🤝Continue reading “Overture Ventures Investor Day”
Author Archives: Bryan Guido Hassin
Why Our Climate Moonshot Requires – And Inspires – Optimism
This piece originally appeared on the DexMat blog during Climate Week NYC. Reposting here for the readers of this blog, who have been putting up with my moonshot metaphors for well over a decade. From mastering fire, to developing life-saving medicines, to sending humans to the moon, it is in our DNA to imagine newContinue reading “Why Our Climate Moonshot Requires – And Inspires – Optimism”
Building a Feedback Culture at a Startup
How I built a thriving feedback culture at a rapidly growing startup in less than one year
I Like Al Gore – And He’s Wrong
A response to Al Gore’s “What the Fossil Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know”
Chief Storyteller, Chief Listener
Anyone who has met me for more than about ninety seconds knows that I am not short on words. So, when Rice Engineering reached out to talk about communication, I braced myself for a gentle roast. Instead, we ended up in a conversation I have been chewing on ever since, and the result is nowContinue reading “Chief Storyteller, Chief Listener”
Running and Reunion: My Return to Lausanne
The IMD MBA Class of 2008 – 15 years later!
DEXMAT’s First Crisis: Bank Failure
DEXMAT made it through the SVB crisis; here is how we handled it and what we learned.
Introducing DEXMAT
Introducing DexMat, one of the most ambitious climatetech moonshots ever. DexMat makes steel, aluminum, and copper obsolete with carbon-negative materials.
2022 Movie and TV Reviews
2022 featured some really good and some really underwhelming content. Don’t worry; I’m here to rate it all!
Rice Outstanding Engineering Alum Remarks
My remarks from accepting the Rice Outstanding Engineering Alum Aaward