#119: Carbon-Negative Materials and $100M+ of Prior Startup Exits — Bryan Hassin, CEO of DexMat

⭐ My guest today is Bryan Hassin, CEO of DexMat, a next-gen climate tech materials company that transforms carbon from an expensive environmental problem into high-value, high-performance nanomaterials, targeting 2-3 gigatons of GHGs reduced through its solutions.

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In addition, Bryan is also:

- Former co-founder and CEO of Third Derivative, the world's largest climate tech accelerator, which has catalyzed $500M+ of investment in 100+ gigaton-potential climate tech startups

- Former Entrepreneur In Residence at RMI

- Serial entrepreneur with $350M+ of exits to date

- Independent Director for Pyrophyte Acquisition Corp., a climate-focused SPAC with a $210M market cap

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🎙️ In this episode, we talked about:

- Why this company stood out from the 2,000+ he reviewed while at Third Derivative

- The role of $20M of non-dilutive capital into his venture

- The importance of bigass goals

- Not being the smartest person in the room (because if you are, then you’re in the wrong room)

- Playing to win versus playing not to lose

- Hypothesis testing and its role in his startup journeys

- Why “drop-in replacement” are magical

- The distinction between the first and the best markets to go after

- How his sabbaticals played a role in his career

- His favorite non-business, non-climate books and why they matter to climate tech

- Why we need to ask, “What would need to be true in order for XYZ to be possible?”

- And lots more

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