Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G – Interview Series

Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive focused on building decentralized infrastructure for artificial intelligence. At 0G, he is leading the development of infrastructure designed to make AI more open, verifiable, and accessible. Heinrich also serves as Executive Chairman of ZeroStack Corp. and has been an instructor and mentor at Stanford University for more than a decade, contributing to programs spanning entrepreneurship, venture capital, and innovation.

He is also a Venture Partner and angel investor with Pioneer Fund, with investments across companies and projects including Stripe, Anthropic, Brex, Notion, Filecoin, Worldcoin, Uniswap, Shield AI, and Binance. Previously, Heinrich founded workplace wellness company Garten, formerly Oh My Green, and held roles at Bridgewater Associates, Bain & Company, SAP Labs, Microsoft, and J.P.

Morgan, giving him experience across entrepreneurship, technology, finance, strategy, and venture investing. 0G is building a decentralized AI infrastructure stack designed to serve as a trust layer for artificial intelligence, enabling AI workloads to be executed, stored, and verified without relying entirely on centralized providers. Its architecture brings together verifiable compute,…