2x founder

Bao Nguyen

Co-Founder @ Hessian

Co-founder

Hessian· Spring 2026 San Francisco Bay Area

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2026Co-founder· Hessian (YC P26)

Founder · since 2024

Company

Hessian (YC P26)

Role

Co-Founder

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Hessian

Forward-deployed AI Agents

Spring 2026

Experience

Career

Hessian (YC P26)
Co-founder
Co-Founder · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
Zettafleet
Co-founder
Co-Founder & Head of Machine Learning · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · 2024 – 2026
2024
Bloomberg LP
Software Engineer · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · 2021 – 2023
2021
Falmouth University
Research Intern · Falmouth, England, United Kingdom · 2016
2016

Bio

Bao, co-founder and CEO of Hessian – leads GTM, fundraising, customer relationships, and ML strategy. He co-founded Zettafleet, leading engineers to build a decentralized LLM training platform on hundreds of GPUs, and was a SWE at Bloomberg building ML pipelines to rate physical assets and managed a Bloomberg-Goldman Sachs Index. MPhil (scholarship) from the University of Cambridge and BSc from Durham University in CS, with publications in ML systems, including research with Google DeepMind.