We create new engines of growth

Track Record

125

years of startup operating experience

$2BN

corporate enterprise value

30

Fortune 1000 companies

$4BN

in startup exits

We Love What We Do

  • We Create Startups

    We are experienced entrepreneurs. Building startups is what we do.

    No we aren’t a fund. We aren’t venture capitalists. We are Founders. We create stuff, do stuff and build stuff.

    We solve real problems for Customers and build profitable businesses around them. This is the best way to change the world.

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  • We Generate Better Returns

    A lot of people say startups are hard. While we don’t deny this is reality for some, we see it differently.

    Startups are easy. We make them easy because we’ve learned to how make them easy by going through hard times.

    We provide investors with a unique opportunity to be part of a new model for building successful startups.

  • We Build Startups For Corporations

    The traditional ways of increasing growth just aren’t working anymore. M&A, corporate venture capital and internal innovation teams usually fail.

    ”Why don’t you just hire us to build startups for you.” It turns out this is a good idea.

    We use the same process for building startups for ourselves to build startups for companies.

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What Makes Us Different

Experienced Entrepreneurs

Experience matters. Collectively, we have over 125 years of startup operating experience.

Proven Methodology

Our proven method for finding product-market fit and scalable business models has created billions in enterprise value.

Startup Zaibatsu

We build a portfolio of startups in a target sector by solving a series of adjacent problems that improves the odds of startup success.

“Sooner or later you have to pick an arrow and get some wood behind it.”

Jeff Wilkins

“I’d rather be successful than right.”

David Linhardt

“If you learn from the experience there is no failure.”

Sunit Gala

Team

  • David Linhardt

    CHIEF CRAZY ONE
    I stopped counting after seven startups.
    I like to do new things.

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  • Sunit Gala

    ENTREPRENEUR

    3x exits, CEO, CTO, CRO, CPO

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  • Elliott Ng

    ENTREPRENEUR

    3x Founder, 3 exits, ex-Googler, Netcentives IPO

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  • Jon Pastor

    ENTREPRENEUR

    1x exit, Investor, Operator

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  • Jeff Wilkins

    ENTREPRENEUR

    9x Founder, 9x exits

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  • Stephen Klein

    ENTREPRENEUR

    1x exit, marketing genius

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  • David Pachkofsky

    ENTREPRENEUR

    I’m still counting after 14 startups. $1BN in e-commerce sales.

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