Brett Hagler
Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story. On 3 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Brett Hagler co-founded New Story, an organization that pioneered 3D-printed housing communities in Mexico and market-driven housing finance in Latin America. After leading New Story as CEO for over a decade, he joined its board and co-founded Hometeam Ventures to invest in construction technology startups.
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3said about them ↓ Everything Brett Hagler said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Brett Hagler: Red Cross raised $500M for Haiti but built six homes
“The Red Cross, this is an article that came out a couple months ago. They raised what was called a half billion dollars for Haiti after the earthquake. And they made a lot of promises to build homes and things like that. And after five years, they've built six…”
A major humanitarian group raised $500M but built only six houses
“It was one of the largest humanitarian organizations, like a bunch of big headlines came out that they raised basically like half a billion dollars and within like six years had only built, and this is not an exaggeration, I think like six houses. That's like …”
Brett Hagler: Non-profits should adopt the exact mindset of tech startups
“The way that organizations set up as far as how we set up our operations, how we set up our platform, how we set up for scale, our products, all those things is the exact same way that a for-profit technology company is set up. And we believe that's the best w…”
Brett Hagler: Non-profits should use partner channels like SaaS companies do
“It is efficient and it's scalable and it makes a lot more sense than to try to build your own in-house capacity to do these things. Collaborate, right? Like use partnerships, use channels, just like SAS companies do, right? Use channels to get the end product …”
Nonprofits should operate with the same principles as tech startups
“Like we believe there should be no difference in how a nonprofit operates.”
3D home printing can reduce construction costs from $6,500 to $3,000
“So right now our homes on average are about 6500 dollars per home. We believe with three D home printing, we can get that down to about 3000 dollars over time, not in the beginning, but over time,”
Funding non-profit operations yields higher leverage than direct project donations
“Okay, I could give 25,000 dollars to call it a home and then the homes are done and it's kind of a sunk cost, right? Or I can give 25,000 dollars so that the team is going to leverage that for better product design, for, you know, engineering, things that will…”
Brett Hagler: Haiti disaster relief tents remained occupied five years post-earthquake
“But they were only supposed to last for about four months. Turns out they've been around now for five and a half years.”
New Story uses 100% of public donations directly for home construction
“100% of what you give will go towards building the house. Well, it's not going to cover any of our overhead, and we do that by having a couple private donors that fund all of our overhead, like private investors, basically.”
New Story plans to open-source its 3D home printing technology
“We want to prove that in our communities and then not keep that for new story. Right? Like, not like, oh, this is RIP, like, sorry guys, like, we've got this three D printer. But then open source or democratize that with all the other nonprofits and government…”
A 3D-printed house tested three times stronger than cinder block homes
“When we tested the PSI levels, it actually came in three times stronger than our normal cinder block homes.”
3D printing will cut home construction from 15 days to 24 hours
“So right now take about 15 days to build a house. This would be under 24 hours and then under 12 hours is the goal.”
New Story routes 100% of public donations directly to beneficiaries
“Unlike most charities, we have a model where a hundred percent of public donations goes to the exact people that they see. And then we have a, another bank account that is just for our overhead funding.”
Brett Hagler: Permanent housing forms foundation for health, education, and income
“It was to simply take them out of that tent slum, bring them into a new community that immediately solves those dangers, and then actually becomes a platform or house becomes the foundation for really the three pillars that people get excited about, which is a…”
Brett Hagler: 100% of donor money goes directly to house construction
“A hundred percent of your donation goes to funding their home.”
Brett Hagler: A New Story home in Haiti costs $6,000 to construct
“One home costs 6000 dollars right now.”
Brett Hagler: New Story funded 100 homes in 91 days during YC
“We have funded now a 131 homes. During YC, we did this campaign we said, let's pick a crazy goal during YC, and so we said, we're going to try to fund a hundred homes in a hundred days, and, you know, we launched this campaign, and we got fortunate, and we did…”
Brett Hagler: New Story will build dozens of communities within five years
“And so you think like the vision going forward in five years, there will be, you know, dozens of new story communities around the world. And that you'll have, of course, the homes cause there's the foundation and you'll have a school, clean water and sanitatio…”
Brett Hagler: Birthday campaigns average 13 new donors with 20% virality
“Now on average, that campaign brings in 13 new people that are now new story donors and exposed to new story that we could have never reached. Right? And then the viral piece is 20% of them will start their own campaign.”
New Story raised $100,000 in two months to build six Haitian homes
“We got, like, a 100,000 dollars within, like a couple months. And that allowed us to use a local partner that we had already known in Haiti that had a long had a lot of experience there. Build our first six houses.”
New Story's next goal is 3D printing a community in El Salvador
“Doing it in Austin is one thing. Do printing a community of homes in El Salvador is the next goal. And so we have to prove it ourselves”
New Story's 3D-printed home launch reached six million views
“I mean, we had, it had been like, I think like six million views now over 500 media outlets have written on it.”
New Story raised $1.3M within a week of its 3D-home launch
“Within the last week, we now have about, like, 1.3 million in donations.”
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 Y COMBINATORLEDGER | Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 1 | 14 | 80% 4/5 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |
 a16zLEDGER | Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 1 | 12 | 86% 6/7 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-Founder & Board Member, New Story | 1 | 6 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Top Founders → |