Adam S.

My life thesis: execution > strategy. Compounding FTW. I'm an optimistic skeptic. Curiosity is the most important quality in life.

I enjoy pattern matching and read widely. The opportunity to learn every day is a gift. Time is precious. The ability to improve what and where I focus and delegate the rest is ideal. 

I [of course] love my family and friends. I believe I am a logical, thoughtful adult and therefore accept my choices. I am content and therefore I have won.

Founder and CEO @Chore. We are a founder's back-office (HR, finance, compliance, equity) operations team. Back-office operations are an undifferentiated tax on success. Focusing on your superpower enables success. Chore handles the rest (i.e. we specialize in ops so you never have to) so you can achieve your dreams. 

Host of the Entrepreneurial Excellence podcast. I dive deep with multi time founders about their key decisions, actions, hires, drivers and more that they use to achieve "excellence." 

General Partner at the Autopilot Fund. We invest in early stage startups. We love obsessed founders who have a history of breaking through walls. I have invested in over 200 startups across multiple funds. 14 are unicorns (8 from seed).

In previous lives, I founded 3 other companies, been a product leader on a big co API team, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and do-it-all janitor. 

I enjoy building great teams, processes, and stories that unify a company around a shared mission. Helping others build successful businesses brings me joy. More successful startups = a better, more dynamic world.

People describe me as energetic, positive, creative, detailed and optimistic. I enjoy rational, logical, data driven debate built on mutual trust and respect. I'm not an engineer but people view me as "technical" and have built companies with the brightest PhDs and brilliant engineers. The best compliment I received was "you ask great questions."

Honesty, trust, fun, a sense of urgency and mission are what I look for in colleagues and places I work. Passion about my product, my company and my team is what drives me. I work hard and enjoy being surrounded by people who do the same. 

"Leave the world (and your business) better than when you arrived..."
"The greatest risk is not taking one!"

Always curious and learning. Subscribe to Entrepreneurial Excellence to learn.

General Partner

The Autopilot Fund focuses on early-stage companies that serve and accelerate how companies operate. 

More about us: https://autopilot.fund/

Operations span various “departments”: could be in engineering, operations, sales, finance, product, customer success… the questions we ask ourselves are:

1. Is this a founding team so capable that others should be afraid to go against them?
2. Do they understand the problem better than anyone, and have special “founder-market” fit?
3. Will they rest until they have dragged the world kicking & screaming into their vision of the future?
4. Is the product “infrastructure” in a manner of speaking: structured data, deeply embedded, sticky?
5. Does the advent of AI exponentially increase or decrease their defensibility?

Our portfolio includes some pretty special companies like AngelList, Pulley, Puzzle, Levels, Disco, among others. 

Smart founders focus. Bad founders distract themselves with all the small, non-product, non-customer work that can easily take up hours but not move your startup forward.

We are sector agnostic and focus mostly on early stage. Our thesis is simple: the best founders come from anywhere, with any background, working in any industry. Focus, joy, dogged determination, and deep knowledge about your product and how you're changing the world is what leads to success.

If you're interested in learning more, drop me a note on LinkedIn.

Full Send Partners LLC

As Vice President of Deal Origination at Full Send Partners, I identify and source high-value investment opportunities for private equity firms, portfolio companies, and corporate clients. I develop data-driven investment theses, execute strategic buyside sourcing, and cultivate relationships to surface off-market deals. Leveraging deep market intelligence and competitive analysis, I assess industry trends, valuation shifts, and M&A activity to inform deal strategy. My role spans the full lifecycle of deal origination, from initial outreach and pipeline management to due diligence and transaction support, ensuring our clients capitalize on the right opportunities at the right time.

Vice President, Deal Origination

Entropy Strategies

Founding Partner

UC Irvine

• Collaborate with other Board Members and Industry Professionals refining educational modules
• Using data from professional experience built and explored new case studies
• Engage with students on best practices, new opportunities in the space, and learning

Advisory Board Member - UC Irvine

Kastle Systems

• Designed and sold bespoke system solutions coordinating multiple departments and functionalities to cover diverse environments.
• Coordinated across multiple internal and external stakeholders to delight customers and expand business within individual organizations
• Collaborated with Chief Legal and Upper Management to close complex multi-site and joint site contracts
• Generated data partnership opportunity with Top 10 Management Company
• Networked through BOMA, IFMA, and CREW, increasing revenue and deal velocity
• Assisted onboarding and training other similar titles

Director, Business Development

Sewn Stone

Inflatable concrete building system saving both time and money over current solutions.
Patent granted USA and PCT

Co-Founder

August North Consulting

• Successfully raised over $10mm for multiple startups by collaborating with C-suite to refine pitch materials,  business models, monetization strategies, and in some cases pitched investors directly 
• Improved sales and operational processes creating new training documentation, coaching sellers, creating new  SOPs to drive a 18% increase in sales efficiency 
• Facilitated yearly sales and operational planning with C-suite to create KPIs and institute the OKR system

Jr Associate

Go Moment

• Collaborated with C- Suite to close contracts with 7 out of the top 10 accounts through cold calling, networking, and ongoing support.  The largest of which started as a small case study.
• Developed tools, expediting sales cycle by 22%.
• Collaborated on an Enterprise Analytics Platform, expanding Enterprise spend by 27%.
• Cultivated partnership with Amazon for Hospitality Including pilot programs and joint roadmap items
• Negotiated a deal with Ticketmaster/LiveNation, driving increased revenue.
• Cultivated relationships with software enterprises, gaining varying levels of integration and partnerships representing 63% of new revenue in Q3 & Q4 2019
• Collaborated with Cornell University in case studies, demonstrating direct ROI and improving close rates by 11%.
• Winner of Innovation in Hospitality Technology Award
• Helped raise capital from Plug N Play Ventures and ABC, later Acquired

Director Of Business Development

Metamason

Advisor

Ben Bridge Jeweler

Consistently top 10% company-wide sales
Facilitated seminars in integration of new technologies into exisiting business practices
Brand Ambassador: Roberto Coin, A Jaffe, Rolex, Panerai, Cartier, IWC, and Tag Heuer.

Assistant Manager

Smith Barney

PWM Team Member

Private Wealth Management Intern

With over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy, Aaron is a visionary leader who creates and executes value-driven solutions for diverse industries. He is the Founding Partner at Entropy Strategies, a boutique consultancy that helps clients achieve their goals through data-driven insights, empowering people with technology, and strategic partnerships.

Aaron has a track record of driving over $100 million in sales across multiple sectors, from biotechnology and finance to hospitality and property technology. He has led and supported teams in developing and launching successful products, services, and initiatives that leverage cutting-edge technologies, customer-centric design, and market research. He has facilitated and managed partnerships with leading brands such as Amazon, Oracle, Ticketmaster, and Caesars Entertainment. Aaron is passionate about advancing innovation and social impact through his work, and serves as an Advisory Board Member at UC Irvine's Customer Success Program and as a mentor and advisor for various startups and organizations.

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