Founder · Army veteran · Writer

Haotian Bai 白昊天

Founder and CEO of Patriot Conceptions, a surrogacy and egg-donation agency, and a U.S. Army veteran.

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Founder and CEO, Patriot ConceptionsMBA Candidate, UCLA Anderson ’27 · Price Center BoardU.S. Army veteran, 2013–2017Family building & veteran entrepreneurship

The operating system

Family building, veteran-led operations, and owned ideas in one operating system.

Haotian’s work compounds where trust is hard to earn: running family-building operations and creating durable channels for serious relationships.

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01 / Trust layer

Family building with operational trust

Patriot Conceptions works in a high-stakes category where privacy, process discipline, and clear decision paths matter from the first conversation.

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02 / Distribution layer

Owned ideas, direct relationships

The newsletter gives serious readers a durable channel for essays, field notes, and founder-level updates without handing the audience to a platform.

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03 / Proof layer

Recognition you can check

Company honors are listed with their years and, where the issuer published one, a link to its record.

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UCLA Anderson · Transformative Leadership Flywheel

Six leadership pillars that compound across operations, technology, and care.

Grounded in the UCLA Anderson Transformative Leader framework, these six pillars connect military-tested discipline, analytical strategy, and technological innovation with verifiable operating milestones.

01 · UCLA Anderson Pillar 01INNOVATIVE

Approaches challenge with flexibility, creativity, and optimism — building category-defining systems where trust and operational rigor meet.

About

Haotian Bai

I'm the founder and CEO of Patriot Conceptions, a surrogacy and egg-donation agency, and a U.S. Army veteran (2013–2017). Patriot Conceptions has been named to the Inc. 5000 three times and to the Vet100 twice.

I'm an MBA Candidate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Class of 2027) and serve on the Board of Advisors of the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UCLA Anderson. I write about family building, operations, and veteran entrepreneurship.