About
Bao Nguyen is co-founder and CEO of Hessian. He previously co-founded Zettafleet, a decentralized LLM training platform, and worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg developing machine learning pipelines for asset rating and index management. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Computer Science from Durham University, with published research in ML systems.
Co-Founder & CEO at HessianYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Bao went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Hessian's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Bao can intro founders to Hessian's investors below.
Hessian's investors · 2
Co-founders at Hessian
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James SmithCo-Founder
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Tom WatsonFounder