I grew up sweeping floors in my family's machine shop in Wisconsin, a small business my grandpa started after serving in WWII and fighting in D-Day. Among my grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles, entrepreneurship is my family's professional craft. My mom was no different. She was early to the internet and social entrepreneurship (circa 1998). After she passed, I took up her torch and have been founding startups for social good in her honor ever since.
I was most recently co-founder and COO at Pioneer, where the team has helped climate tech companies win $175+ million in government funding. In college, I co-founded Moonshot Learning, AI and technology ethics curriculum used in 425+ high schools.
In addition to being a founder, I've worked on the founding teams of multiple startups and spent a few years in venture capital at NFX. I now live in the Bay Area with my beautiful wife and baby girl. You can reach me at kyle(dot)treige@gmail(dot)com.
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Favorite quote
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.