Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

What individual skills have CEOs of Biom developed in order to launch Biom this year?

30 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, the two co‑founders of Biome, Will and Hank, discuss how their distinct professional backgrounds prepare them to launch the company in April. Will brings over a decade of enterprise sales experience, having worked at Sequoia‑backed startups like Piazza and Untapped, giving him expertise in company building, market outreach, and customer acquisition. Hank contributes more than ten years of architectural design experience, focusing on product design, craftsmanship, and behavior‑changing aesthetics. Both share a passion for brands and products, and they describe how their complementary skills—sales and market strategy on one side, design and user experience on the other—create a synergistic partnership that fuels their excitement for creating Biome.

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So Will, your background includes 10+ years in enterprise sales, including at Sequoia-backed companies such as Piazza and Untapped. And then Hank, yours is 10+ years of experience in architectural design. So as you think about your partnership, how have your individual skills set you up for launching Biome in April of this year? I think, Hank, let's start off with you.
Well, Will and I are both like sort of passionate about brands and products. Will brings a lot to the table just in terms of understanding, you know, how to create a company, how to reach people, how to get people to sort of, you know, gravitate towards something. And then, you know, I really focus on, you know, how to make it and how to build it well. I'm sort of obsessed with this like intersection of making things pretty but designing them really well and, you know, trying to basically, you know, improve people's lives or change people's behaviors. So, you know, sort of in that, that world, that's where Will and I sort of intersected. And, you know, we just get really fired up talking about, you know, creating a company.