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Hatch Blue bets on the hard part of seafood
A fish farm needs more than a clever pitch. Hatch Blue has built an investment business around the awkward distance between a promising invention and something a farmer will actually buy.
Robert Mock Bet the Company on a Seaweed Chip. The Recall Made Him Smarter.
A former derivatives banker tried to make seaweed crunch like a tortilla chip, lost the bet, and rebuilt around a better signal: what shoppers actually put in their carts.
Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley is the Chairman and CEO of Be My Eyes, the world's largest digital volunteer organization connecting blind and low-vision users with sighted volunteers via live video calls. A communications veteran who spent 12 years at Brunswick Group and three years as Facebook's VP of Global Business Communications, Buckley pivoted to mission-driven tech when he joined Be My Eyes in December 2022. Under his leadership, Be My Eyes launched Be My AI (powered by GPT-4), which TIME named one of the Best Inventions of 2023, and scaled the platform to over 1 million blind and low-vision users supported by 6.7 million volunteers worldwide. He is also co-founder and chairman of Ocean's Halo, a seaweed-based natural foods company, and an active angel investor.