Huminly, Inc.

Enabling infinite recycling of textiles using enzymes. Backed by @fiftyyears, @aminocollective, and Look Up Ventures.

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Reach out via reply, DM, or on Linkedin and come build the future with us at megaton scale.

[Nikita Khlystov @nikitakhlystov]

@kedartv @DouglasYaoDY @bryan_johnson This is the type of culture we're building @huminly. First principles thinking and sheer grit to bring sustainable *and* profitable recycling to the megaton fast fashion industry, using biology. We're recruiting the uncommon among uncommon engineers.

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starting the day off right

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(Hand)made in the USA.

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Our new website is live. Check it out!

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[Nikita Khlystov @nikitakhlystov]

Avoiding Burnout: The Power of Why

At @huminly we ask ourselves every day why we are doing the things that we're doing, both at an individual level as well as the societal level. Early-stage startups - at least the ones driven to create an impact - can become hotbeds of employee burnout. When you have to get up at 3 a.m. again because a fermentation has gone wrong for the second night in a row, it's all too natural to ask yourself - why the hell am I doing this?

It's critical as a leader of an early-stage startup to remind everyone of those answers to why. It's no secret that @nvidia has had a culture of 12+ hour workdays since the early days. Now they're reaping the benefits of all that hard work as a trillion dollar company. How do they not burn out? It's because Jensen Huang, who carries the nickname Professor Jensen, leads by example in reinforcing and encouraging each employee to ask of *and answer* to themselves "why" at every opportunity.

As you practice putting yourself in situations that force you to find an answer to the question of why, those answers become fuel. They become what @davidgoggins calls the 100-hour tree logs that burn long and bright on the longest of days, and even make those days the most rewarding.

If my great-grandparents saw the way we live today, they'd think that we're living in a sci-fi dream. The future won't be built unless we build it. At @huminly we get up each morning and we build toward a future where old clothes and plastic trash are seen as resources, not as waste. In many ways we're working hard to make something out of nothing, and that's why we keep going.

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It was a delight hosting such an engaged and enthusiastic 5050 cohort today! Excited to see all the new startups and breakthroughs that will come from this bright crew.

P.S. we're hiring :)

[Seth Bannon @sethbannon]

Very inspiring for this cohort of 5050 to see a former 5050 whose startup is now off to the races. @nikitakhlystov epically holding up a bag of recycled polyester monomer made via @huminly's enzymatic recycling of old clothes.