Nest co-founder Matt Rogers shows his love for the HVAC industry in his latest entrepreneurial adventures. After creating his food waste startup, Mill, Rogers is turning back toward high-efficiency heating and cooling systems. He’s since unofficially joined as an advisor to Quilt, a startup focused on distributed heat pumps. His journey serves as a testament to the power of innovation, sustainability, and the importance of investing in technology.
Founded in 2010 by Rogers and Tony Fadell, Nest quickly changed the smart home industry with its fancy thermostat technology. Since that time, Rogers has done more than take an interest in HVAC; he’s built an extensive career. He started Mill for the purpose of addressing food waste. Now he has the bandwidth to call upon his experience to engage more deeply with other companies in the sector.
It was a challenging time for me launching Mill,” Rogers said. He noted that the path to create this new enterprise was challenging but fulfilling. Now that Mill is officially on board, he can’t wait to get to work helping Quilt realize their vision.
Rogers took a board seat at Quilt after meeting the company’s co-founder and CEO, Paul Lambert, a few years ago. Their personal friendship developed rapidly after Quilt successfully raised its seed round. This moment was a confluence of Rogers’s deep, personal, longstanding interests and focus on HVAC solutions.
Quilt is on a mission to make the promise of modern heat pump technology available to more people. Like Rogers did with Nest, they are trying to get a flywheel going. Lambert expressed their ambition, stating, “We’re really trying to do the Nest playbook,” emphasizing their intent to adapt proven strategies in a new context.
Rogers’s participation in Quilt is just one example of Rogers’s dedication to moving the HVAC industry forward. As a former Apple engineer, he has a lot of experience to draw from. His visionary leadership will expedite transformative change in the way that consumers think about heating and cooling solutions.
Together with his wife, civil rights attorney Janéa Collins, he co-leads Incite, a venture dedicated to their intersection of investment, philanthropy and activism. This joint business exemplifies their combined dedication to transformational projects that enhance sustainability and advance smart technology.
Rogers is pursuing those HVAC interests as deep as ever with Quilt and other endeavors. Industry observers are surely awaiting with glee to see how his expertise will help steer the future of these transformative heating and cooling technologies.
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