Running at the Hard Problems: Building Hardware with Matt Rogers & Mike Schroepfer
**Update: we are at capacity for our in-person event. Please register for the virtual event to get the zoom link.**
Scaling hardware is crucial to addressing climate change since solutions need to be deployed IRL.
In this lively chat, Matt and Mike will discuss the nuances of building enterprise and consumer products, lessons on scaling hardware teams, and why you need to tackle the hardest problems first. If you’re climate-curious this is a great behind-the-scenes take on what it takes to build hard tech solutions.
The Fireside Chat is from 3pm-4pm PT followed by Networking from 4pm-4:30pm PT. Space is limited for the in-person event. A live stream is available to anyone to join remotely.
Be sure to check out our other event on Forging Your Path in Climate Tech which will also include a livestream option.
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About the Speakers
Matt Rogers is the CEO and co-founder of Mill, a first-of-its-kind food recycling system, that keeps food out of landfills and sends it back to farms. He is also the founder of Incite.org, a values-based investor that provides catalytic capital and guidance for world positive start-ups, non-profits, and activists. Prior to Incite, Matt was the co-founder of Nest, where he built the team that created the first machine learning thermostat and the leading brand for the connected home. Matt started his career at Apple, building the software team for 10 generations of the iPod. He was one of the first engineers on the original iPhone and was involved in the development of 5 iPhone generations, and the first iPad. Matt earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.
Mike Schroepfer is Founder and Partner at Gigascale Capital, where he backs early-stage climate technology companies modernizing the world’s biggest industries. He is also a Senior Fellow at Meta focused on AI and developing technical talent. Schrep brings a 25-year track record of building technology, scaling companies, and advancing science as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor. As the CTO of Meta, he scaled 8GW of clean energy infrastructure and grew the team to 30,000, which enabled the company to connect billions of people and make breakthroughs in AI, VR, and AR. Mike’s philanthropic work at the Carbon-to-Sea Initiative aims to accelerate climate science and policy responses to the crisis. He’s a Stanford CS grad, led engineering at Mozilla, founded a company acquired by Sun Microsystems, and is a decent skier and mediocre surfer.
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