Michael Heinrich
Michael Heinrich is Co-founder & CEO at 0G Labs, building the fastest modular AI chain. Formerly, Bridgewater, Bain, MSFT, founder Garten.
Over the last decade I've been making the world healthy and blissful. I'm the Founder of garten, a top Ycombinator and Stanford StartX company, and a top corporate wellbeing provider.
I'm a visionary CEO and changemaker with the following results: • $200M+ in revenue generated • $125M+ in equity & debt funding raised from top tier VC funds, highest valuation of $1B achieved • Industry leading customer experience & metrics: 80+ NPS, 9 CSAT, 25 LTV / CAC, 8 month CAC recovery, 124% YoY growth, 130% net retention • Created technology platform vision and acquired 4 companies to enhance product portfolio • Built & led very diverse team of more than 650 people from top technology & professional services companies • 2 years of profitability • Crisis management: survived and led company safely through 90% revenue drop during COVID • Frequently featured in media such as Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Inc, Fox, Cheddar TV, History Channel, YCombinator, Stanford, Harvard Business Review, and the Information. • Invested in many unicorn companies at early stages • Teaching: my Hacking Consciousness class was the only Stanford class to be selected for Apple’s Best of Collection that year
Other experience: • Board of Trustees Member at MIU • Mentor and lecturer at Stanford University • Angel and venture partner for Pioneer Fund • Bridgewater Associates (responsible for $65B in trades a day via portfolio construction strategy) • Bain & Co, consulted Fortune 500 companies • Technical product management & engineering at SAP and Microsoft (shaped strategic vision of xApps Duet + MSDN academic alliance and ImagineCup)
Education: • Stanford (Threshold Venture Fellow, OnTrack Innovation Scholar) • Harvard • UC Berkeley (summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Americorps Bonner Leader)
Awards: • Top YCombinator company • Top 100 Entrepreneur • Top 100 Harvard Alumni in Technology • Top Corporate Wellbeing Provider • Top Remote Friendly Workplace • YPO • StartX • Threshold Ventures Fellow, OnTrack Innovation Fellow, Cleantech Fellow • Apple’s best of award for Hacking Consciousness Class
I attribute my blissfulness to a committed daily meditation practice, a lifelong love of healthy eating that was inspired by my grandma who is a retired medical doctor in Germany and her organic garden, and an equally healthy sense of humor. One of my favorite hobbies is Shaolin Kung Fu – I enjoy performing the nine section whip, front handsprings and black dragon twists in competitions and in San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade.
