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.

Arthur Wang

The world's first social hustling community.

Founder and CEO

Wimzee

A marketplace of creative experiences for children and young adults.

Founder

Abax Interactive

An advisory firm specializing in the convergence of technology, media & entertainment, and telecommunications.

Owner

The Fund

Member

MuckerLab

Mentor founders with a focus on user and customer acquisition for consumer Internet start ups.

Mentor

Impact

Investor

CraftJam

Investor / Advisor

Gento

A digital marketplace focused on changing how healthcare is delivered.

Lomotif

A Gen Z social networking application focused on creative collaboration.

Super Deluxe

Responsible for company operations, business development, brand partnerships, data and insights, merchandising, marketing, and audience development.
•	Built and led the marketing, audience development, data + insights, branded content, advertising, and merchandising teams
•	Ramped from 0 to 50M monthly video viewers across multiple platforms targeting a 14-34 year old audience
•	Executed brand and creative services partnerships with leading brands, including KFC, Miller Coors, Netflix, Slim Jim, Target, and Tinder   
•	Managed key platform and distribution relationships

Chief Operating Officer

Executive with a focus on general management, entrepreneurship, scaling business operations, audience development, brand partnerships, and business development. 

Experience in building teams, owning P&L, product management, business development, corporate development, publisher development, and advertiser sales.

Specialties: Audience building, brand partnership, content marketing, mobile UA, and subscription-based products.

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