Colton Kaplan

Host of Change with Colton🎙 Podcast | Operations | Strategy | Lean Six Sigma | Supply Chain | Eliminating loneliness on the founder journey | Growing Founder Social Club Community

I am the founder of Founder Social Club, a community built to eliminate loneliness for founders by bringing them together with mentors, investors, and peers through intentional events, content, and conversation.

Over the past year, I have hosted 60 plus events and grown the community to over 26k founders, investors, and operators.

Founder Social Club is focused on signal over noise, real relationships, and creating environments where trust and long term thinking can compound.

I also host the Founder Social Club Podcast, where I sit down with founders and operators to talk candidly about product, growth, hiring, fundraising, failure, and what it actually takes to build.

My background spans operations, supply chain, and scaling teams at high velocity. I previously helped launch next generation automated fulfillment centers at Walmart eCommerce and have worked closely with cross functional teams to drive execution at scale.

Today, my focus is on building Founder Social Club into a multi city ecosystem across events, media, and membership while partnering with aligned sponsors and investors who care about founders and long term impact.

Always open to thoughtful conversations and partnerships.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, listening to podcasts, spending time with my wife, and playing with my Shih Tzu Mila.

Founder and Product Manager

• Developed UI/UX interface and integrated software automating and optimizing efficiency for the customer
• Created process flow and built product roadmap launching 5 products in six months increasing revenue by 50%
• Identified pain points of target market, conducted market research and launched MVP going from 0 to 1
• Implemented agile and scrum methodologies executing sprints resulting in 30% response rate for outreach
• Prioritizing tasks of managing CRM, sales cycle, product marketing, and product and business development
• Executed data-driven analysis of competitor landscape resulting in iterating pricing models and monetization strategies

Had a fantastic time hosting a Founder & Investor Happy Hour with ImagineArt last week!

Good food, real conversations, and a thoughtful group of founders & investors.

Thanks to Ahmed Abubakar and Shawal Fida for co-hosting and partnering.

Looking forward to the ImagineArt launch party this Friday in SF.

RSVP link in the comments.

#LaunchParty #SF #content

Founder Social Club

Podcast Host 🎙️| Founder Social Club | Eliminating loneliness for founders | VC Scout @ Headline

Building a company in the United States often brings immigration decisions into company structure, fundraising timing, and hiring earlier than expected.

Next week we are hosting Startup Immigration Playbook with Manifest Law covering visa options founders and startup teams often work through:
O-1, H-1B, EB-1A, EB-2

Some are temporary work visas while others are permanent residency paths. We will walk through when each is typically used, common approval mistakes, and what founders should start preparing early based on traction. There will be time for live questions as well.

Useful for founders, future founders planning a move, and teams working with global cofounders or hires.

Founder Social Club

#ManifestLaw #foundervisas #o1 #h1b #eb1a #eb2 #startups #immigration

When the right people are in the room, good things tend to happen.

Tomorrow Founder Social Club is co-hosting the Tech Career Showcase in SF at SVB with manny duenas 🛳️ (Intern Ship), and Steph Minaya & Jhillika Kumar (Mentra)!

Here are the teams joining us:

Trillboards, CEO - Sneh Dhruv
Building interactive real-world advertising experiences that connect physical spaces with digital engagement.

Currently Hiring:
• Account Executive
• Software Engineering Intern
​
SUN (a16z Speedrun), Co-founder & CEO - Artin Bogdanov
AI-powered audio learning app. AI podcasts and book summaries from a single prompt.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (Flutter/Dart)
• Founding Back-End Engineer (Python, AWS, Supabase, LLMs)
• Social Media Content Creator

JigsawStack - Founder - Yoeven D Khemlani
Developer platform helping teams integrate AI workflows and automation into real products faster.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Growth
• GTM Engineer

Azentic AI - Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh
Building AI agents that automate sales execution across CRM, meetings, and workflows.

Currently Hiring:
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

​FUSE HEALTH INC 
Currently Hiring:
• CTO / Founding Engineer

Mentra
A San Francisco–based neurodivergent hiring platform and network. Mentra is building a future where neurodivergent talent is valued, supported, and matched with workplaces that truly understand ND needs.

Hiring for Microsoft roles: 
• Data Center Technician
• Critical Data Technician

GitHired - Krishna Oza
Sourcing early engineers and builders for high signal startups working on frontier AI and developer tools.

​Currently Hiring For Roam, Caddy, and The Token Company

Roam – Applied AI lab building world models for real time 3D environments (SF)
• Member of Technical Staff — Agents & Diffusion
• Applied AI/ML Developer

​Caddy (YC F25) – Agentic productivity platform working directly with founders (NYC, in person)
• Software Engineer — Core Systems

The Token Company (YC W26) – ML lab focused on state of the art LLM input optimization (SF, pre seed)
• ML Engineer — Early Team

See you tomorrow.

Let’s get people hired 🚀

Founder Social Club is launching a new series called The Reserve on Wednesday 2/25!

Excited to partner with HubSpot (Mahir Kumar Singh) & Azentic AI (Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh), this is a small, curated room for 20–25 founders & investors.

The goal is simple: create a space where people can slow down and actually get to know the people in the room.

Every guest is intentionally selected so the conversations feel natural.

This first edition includes a margarita making class and live cooking demo. Shared experiences just make conversations easier.

For founders doing $500K+ ARR or $500K+ raised, and investors actively backing companies.

Approval required. Location shared after acceptance. 21+.

If this sounds like your kind of room, message me.

#FSC #HubspotForStartups #Azentic

Another fun week ahead at Founder Social Club.

Tomorrow we are hosting a Co-working & Lunch at SVB from 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. Come get work done, meet great people, and have real conversations.

Thank you Baargav Duggirala from Chargebee and Viet Andy Nguyen from SVB for partnering with us on this one.

Also, excited to co-host the Tech Career Showcase on Thursday 2/19 with my friends manny duenas 🛳️ from Intern Ship and Steph Minaya from Mentra.

We have strong talent across engineering, GTM, product, design, and other functions exploring their next role.

We have a few hiring table spots left for startups actively hiring full-time roles.
If you are hiring full time, DM me.

RSVP links in the comments.

#Startups #coworking #hiring #events #sf

Excited to bring together founders and investors tomorrow in San Francisco for the Global Founder & Investor Summit.

Founder Social Club and Venture Bridge Hub are gathering ecosystem leaders from Africa, London, Europe, and Silicon Valley for an evening focused on cross-border connections, startup pitches, and real conversations.

Featured Speakers
• Marsha Wulff — Co-Founder LoftyInc Capital
 • David Hubert — VP of External Relations EuroCham - Association of American European Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations
 • Borja Palma Huarte — Business Development Manager @ London & Partners
 • Alfredo Coppola — Co-CEO @ US Market Access Center

Startup Judges
• Evan Buhler — Founder + General Partner @ Talok Capital
• Ulvi Rashid — Founding Partner @ Traction Fund
• Pasquale Zaccarella — Shareholder & Investor @ Eden ventures

Grateful to Daniel Fidanque and the team at Manifest Law for partnering on the event and supporting founders building across borders and to Bryan & Viet Andy Nguyen at SVB for hosting us.

Should be a great room of founders and investors building across borders.

Should be a great room.
See you tomorrow in San Francisco.

Excited to bring 4 more companies hiring!!! Join us later today at SVB.

Trainsit - The AI-first platform to allow businesses to optimize and convert their supply chain towards rail, the better option for the environment and wallet. 
• 2 Founding Engineers

SigIQ.ai - Democratizing Personalized 1:1 Learning for Everyone
• Senior Product Designer
• Senior Full Stack Engineer

NexDiscovery - Agentic AI that monitors enterprise data, uncovers hidden insights, and takes action before teams even know to ask.
• Founding Enterprise AE
• FDE / Solutions Architect
• Pilot Program Lead
• Chief of Staff
• Partner Channel Sales

​Regulis AI - Developing AI products for the transportation industry. 
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

RSVP here: https://luma.com/s396by7m

If you’re a new grad or early career right now, you know jobs are hard to get.

That’s why I’m co hosting my third hiring experience with Colton Kaplan - Founder Social Club, Steph Minaya and Jhillika Kumar - Mentra to help people find opportunities. (Link to register in the comments)

This isn’t a traditional job fair.
Smaller room.
Founders introducing themselves.
Human conversations.

And I’ll say it clearly:

Startups are one of the most powerful pathways into a career right now.

When you join early, you get proximity, ownership, speed, and real reps.

Here are the teams pitching and hiring today:

🚀 Trillboards  
CEO: Sneh Dhruv 
Building interactive real-world advertising experiences that connect physical spaces with digital engagement.

Currently Hiring:
• Account Executive
• Software Engineering Intern

🎧 SUN (a16z Speedrun)

Co-founder & CEO: Artin Bogdanov
AI-powered audio learning app. AI podcasts and book summaries from a single prompt.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Full-Stack Mobile Engineer (Flutter/Dart)
• Founding Back-End Engineer (Python, AWS, Supabase, LLMs)
• Social Media Content Creator

🧩 JigsawStack 

Founder: Yoeven D Khemlani
Developer platform helping teams integrate AI workflows and automation into real products faster.

Currently Hiring:
• Founding Growth
• GTM Engineer

🤖 Azentic AI

Pradeep Padala & Aashish Parikh  
Building AI agents that automate sales execution across CRM, meetings, and workflows.

Currently Hiring:
• Software Engineer
• AI/ML Engineer

🏥 FUSE HEALTH INC  
Currently Hiring:
• CTO / Founding Engineer

🧠 Mentra  
A San Francisco–based neurodivergent hiring platform and network building a future where neurodivergent talent is valued and supported.

Hiring for Microsoft roles:
• Data Center Technician
• Critical Data Technician

🔎 GitHired – Krishna Oza 
Sourcing early engineers and builders for high-signal startups working on frontier AI and developer tools.

Currently Hiring For Roam, Caddy, and The Token Company:

Roam – Applied AI lab building world models for real time 3D environments (SF)
• Member of Technical Staff — Agents & Diffusion
• Applied AI/ML Developer

​Caddy (YC F25) – Agentic productivity platform working directly with founders (NYC, in person)
• Software Engineer — Core Systems

The Token Company (YC W26) – ML lab focused on state of the art LLM input optimization (SF, pre seed)
• ML Engineer — Early Team

(See the rest of the companies hiring in the comments.)

Smaller sessions.
Deeper conversations.
Space to engage at your pace.

We’re creating human first hirng experiences.

Let’s get people hired 🚀

Join manny duenas 🛳️ and the Intern Ship talent network. Things are coming. 👀

#talentnetwork

I’m super happy to announce…



I’ve decided to launch the best talent community the world has ever seen!

Welcome to the 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤!

Join to get access to a hidden job market and more human first IRL hiring experiences.

This is personal for me.

When I started the Intern Ship, I was a University Recruiter at Intuit helping students land jobs there.

Which meant every time someone walked up to me at one of my Intern Ship events asking me to help them find a job - I had to tell them

“Oh sorry I can only hire for Intuit.” Which often times wasn’t even hiring yet.

That happened A LOT. It was literally one of the biggest reasons people kept coming to my events - they wanted to meet recruiters.

I heard them loud and clear. I just couldn’t do anything about it.

UNTIL I LEFT.

Now that I’m free from corporate and any conflicts of interest I’m locked in to helping my community find more opportunities.

Drop a 🛳️ in the comments, like and I'll send you the link to join.

Follow me so I can send you a DM!

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Global Sales Director

RevGenius

RevGenius is a group of revenue-generating sales and marketing professionals brought together to learn, share, support, and grow with each other. You can consider us part of your work family!

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Founding Member

EmployBridge

✔️Presidents Club Nominee 2023
✔️Implemented Successful Launch of Digital Staffing Company Rollout via SAAS and BlueCrew
✔️Top 10% in Sales for Company
✔️Closed Multi-Billion Dollar Company’s and Implemented Sales in 7 Different States 
✔️B2B and SAAS Sales Leader
✔️Opened New Market to Become One of The Leading Territories
✔️Supply Chain Management

Business Development Manager | SAAS

Family Source Consultants

Increased Revenue by 64% -Sold 3rd Party Consulting Services to Intended Parents who wanted to have a Child through the use of Surrogate Database and or Egg Donor Database. Average package was $160,000 and the Sales Cycle was typically 60-120 days due to the complex Sales Cycle.

✔️Multi-Country and Multi-State Selling and Leadership 
✔ Manage global business development managers (CRM's)to provide customer service to clients
✔ Manage, maintain and improve assigned existing accounts with Fertility Clinics and Doctors 
✔ Develop, manage and execute marketing strategy with Marketing Team
✔ Manage and monitor company revenue infrastructure and add ideas to grow the business-full P&L access

Director Of Sales and Client Development

Oak Street Health

Increased Patient Enrollment by 40%. Sold to those on Medicare our Services to become a Primary Care Provider (PCP) and provide all Amenities available.

✔ Recruitment of employees and patients throughout state, managed a team of 8-10 Outreach Executives
✔ Manage targets each month and obtain over-performance-target was to gain 25 new patients per month
✔ Revenue Generator leading training and coaching teams to ensure goals are met-Full P&L Access
✔ Sales Strategy and team building through trust and partnerships with Businesses/Insurance Companies

Outreach Director

Rollins, Inc.

Increased Revenue Production by 284% throughout Michigan and Midwest. Sold Wildlife Control Services and Products to Business, Consumers and Government Entities for the #1 Wildlife Control Company in the World. Grew Business from $796,000 in 2018 to 2.7 million in 2019 and 3.6 million in 2020. President's Club Nominee(2020). KPI's Measured: Revenue Growth YOY, Employee Retention, Net Promoter Score (NPS).

✔️Multi-Country and Multi-State Selling and Leadership
✔ Recruitment of employees of all levels and for all positions throughout the state/midwest
✔ Exceed revenue and production goals and contribution margin monthly-Full P&L Access
✔ Expand and grow the business organically and through acquisitions of franchises
✔ Grow market share within Midwestern States

District Manager

Club Pilates

Grew Membership by 336% and Grand Opened 5 Facilities throughout Michigan. Sold Wellness Services and Memberships And Products to Business and Customers at all 5 facilities in the State.

✔ Recruitment of employees of all levels and for all positions throughout the state
✔ Exceed revenue and attrition goals-retained 80% of our members
✔ Expand and grew the business by 57%-membership acquisition and product acquisition
✔ Managed full Operations of each facility in state-Full P&L Access

Regional Sales and Operations Director

LIFETIME FITNESS

Received the Most Elite Award of Youngest DH in Company History by generating over $250,000 more in Revenue than Predecessor in first year. Sold Wellness Services and Products to Businesses and Consumers. Continued to Oversee all Employees in areas of Member Experience, Sales and Promotion, Financial and Budgetary, Managerial and Supervisory, and Education and Experience. Helped Grow the Company from 15 Centers to 122 Centers. Artistry award Nominee from 2006-2009 KPI's Measured: Revenue Growth YOY, Employee Retention, Net Promoter Score (NPS).

✔ Achieved over 117% revenue goal in 36 months and increased SSSG and YOY growth each year by 113%.
✔ Trained, mentored, and developed over 30 individuals into leadership positions in the U.S. and Canada. 
✔ Consistently ranked in the Top 15 out of 122 for revenue performance and leadership for 12 years straight.
✔ Full P&L Access and Business Reporting and Forecasting
✔️Multiple-States Selling and Leadership

Senior Department Head

Ascension

Worked in all 4 Phases of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation including Stress testing, EKG interpretation and Fitness programming. Also worked in the Emergency Room and Surgery Room and Cath Lab assisting Doctors and Medical Staff.

Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

A highly competent experienced Leader with extensive sales experience who is results driven with a customer focus and demonstrated history of working with multiple teams in multiple regions with many service and products. Exceptional analytical, communication and leadership skills who can problem solve complex situations.  Diversely skilled in Team Building, Direct Sales, Sales Presentations, Teamwork, and Product Development and Market Strategies and Full P%L Management and Saas. Consultative Sales and Relationship Building Focused. Believes in the Golden Rule. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ItXf5yONkGl3DnEvFzrCmklvG273xw9/view?usp=drivesdk

#Sales
#Revenuegrowth
#Salesgeek

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