Brittany Laughlin grew up in a military family and founded Incline HQ, a training platform helping military veterans transition into tech roles through an eight-week course that connects their existing skills to startup opportunities. She developed a structured 12-question co-founder check-in framework at Lattice Ventures to help founding teams align on personal wellbeing, role design, and evolving business beliefs—an unusually codified tool for relationship health that she actively shares with founders.

• Interest in the evolution of Bitcoin and decentralized infrastructure. Views blockchain not just as a financial asset but as a maturing technology ready to serve large-scale markets, specifically highlighting the potential of the Bitcoin layer-2 network Stacks to bring decentralized finance and accessible tools to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
• Advocacy for transferring traditional professional skills into the Web3 space. Frequently encourages professionals from Web2 backgrounds—such as product managers, marketers, and lawyers—to apply their foundational skills like stakeholder alignment, storytelling, and policy guidance to crypto protocols and DAOs, rather than feeling they need to relearn everything from scratch.
• Focus on sustainable founder psychology and realistic daily routines. Promotes the concept of honest mornings over perfectly productive ones, suggesting that founders rely on small, intentional habits to manage stress, such as drinking water before coffee, ten minutes of free-writing to clear the mind, or dedicated time with family before the workday chaos begins.
• Pragmatic approach to governance and regulation in crypto. Argues that regulation is inevitable and can make startups sharper and more durable, citing the evolution of the Helium network from community debates on Discord to formal on-chain voting as an example of how protocol governance must mature alongside the technology.
• Emphasis on the tangible realities of early-stage company building. Advises founders that culture is formed by every small decision, such as choosing between async or in-office work, and warns that early progress is often messy, requiring trust in people rather than reliance on polished tooling or software.
• Curiosity regarding macro-level energy and infrastructure challenges. Questions how regions like Europe can leverage surplus energy production to gain a competitive advantage and notes the increasing alignment among G7 nations regarding the energy demands required to support the growth of artificial intelligence.