SeeSnap is focused on helping those in construction/proptech have fast, efficient, and error-free operations

I build. I scale. I execute. For over 25 years, I’ve been in the trenches building companies, products, and services from the ground up—and doing it repeatedly. I take ideas from “just a thought” to $15M+ businesses, and I thrive on turning complexity into clarity.

Today, I work as a fractional CEO, CFO, and COO, helping business owners get results, solve problems, and execute without excuses. Some of what I’ve done:

Scaled White Olive CPA into a high-growth, operationally excellent firm.

Built multiple startups from $0 → $10M+, including apps, SaaS, hardware, professional services, and operational platforms.

Designed and implemented full business ecosystems: Product, legal, accounting, marketing, sales, and operations.

Launched market-winning products and services that generate repeatable revenue. Recognized as a multi-time Inc. 500 honoree and Nashville Future 50 leader with products across all major distribution channels, top 100 retail stores and I 42 countries.  I combine strategic insight with hands-on execution, building scala-ble operations, high-performing teams, and measurable results.

If you want to win, let’s talk: 

mark@whiteolivecpa.com (for accounting and advisory needs) 

 markfilaroski.mf@gmail.com (for grind ventures, and so on)

A  select few VC are my network are turning out to be lunatics.

Every day on LinkedIn: “Now, now, now!”

It’s like watching a guy in a suit yell at a marathon runner while sitting on a couch eating Doritos.

A select few VC lunatics lecture founders on urgency while:

Borrowing other people’s money
Paying themselves millions (no matter what the outcome) 
Setting a 10–15 year payback (if ever)

Meanwhile, founders are out here bleeding, sweating, killing themselves to ship products, change markets, build real innovation, land customers, build teams and doing 100 jobs a day with very little funding. 

Founders: take advice from people who’ve actually built a startup. (even if it's bad advice, it will be more real)

 Mr. Mark Russell  Filaroski 🤳

As the leader of the SeeSnap team, I am fortunate to be part of a team that is creating a mobile-first deskless workforce solution that will be the low-cost industry leader.


In this day and age, deskless work is challenging enough. It's time we built a software solution that doesn't require hours of training, hours of data entry, and a Harvard degree to get the job done. This is about outputs and satisfied users, not training and data entry.


In my role at SeeSnap, I lead the company's strategy, vision, mission, and funding efforts, emphasizing customer-centric solutions. I'm a results-oriented startup Founder & CEO with a professional track record of exceeding goals and objectives, both as an individual contributor as well as a trusted leader. 


My team at SeeSnap can count on me for the following.


Self-starter - capable of implementing and executing changes.

A passion for the mission of the company.

Personality with a high level of energy - a motivator

The ability to think critically in a strategic and analytical manner.

By planning, motivating, organizing, and controlling specific outcomes, I am able to easily move others to action.

Motivated by goals - naturally driven to accomplish them.

Ability to establish and maintain excellent relationships and credibility quickly; Ability to create a team atmosphere while achieving key objectives 100%;

Having a good balance of risk-taking and judgment, being goal-oriented and confident, and being able to work independently of a large staff to achieve short-term goals.

Professional - a person of unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character who will demonstrate high moral and ethical standards.

Leading from a faith-based perspective


Honors previously received:

Bootstrapped my first two startups to over 10 million in revenue (each) 11.6 and 13.1 million each. 
Made Inc500 -3X as a solo bootstrapped founder.

Mentored or invested in more than 200 startups - 16 having had exits, 30 + INC500s

A Nashville Future 50 Who's Who honoree

Internet Retailer of the Year - #538

Young President's Organization 
Local church groups, TeamChad, and Nashville Wine Action are among my philanthropic activities

Proverbs 14:23 (“All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty”)

Partner at Red Beard Ventures | VC & Angel Investor

SpaceX wants to IPO at $1.5 trillion. OpenAI wants $1 trillion.

Meanwhile, 2025's biggest IPOs are already underwater.

Figma hit $115 per share on day one. Today it's $29. That's a 75% collapse in 6 months.

And Figma isn't alone.

Klarna: $40 IPO → $28 today
StubHub: $23.50 IPO → $15 today
Navan: $25 IPO → $15 today
eToro: $52 IPO → $31 today
Chime: $27 IPO → $26 today

Everyone blames the "IPO window."

VCs say timing was off.
Founders say the market turned.
Bankers say conditions shifted.

Nobody wants to say the obvious thing:

These companies went public at prices set by private investors who needed an exit, not prices public investors would actually pay.

In private markets, the next round sets the price.
In public markets, there is no next round.

No friendly markup. No bridge financing. Just millions of shareholders pricing your business every single day.

SpaceX has done 4 tender offers in 18 months. Each one doubled the valuation. Each one moved less than 1% of the company.

That's not price discovery. That's price manufacturing.

OpenAI is still losing money.
Anthropic just hit $350 billion.

The IPO window was never the problem.

The problem is the gap between what private investors agreed to pretend companies were worth and what public investors are willing to pay.

That gap is about to get tested at a scale we've never seen.

After 25+ years of building businesses, leading teams, and being deep in the trenches, it's easy to see.

Real progress doesn’t come from titles, it always comes from you or people that join you and the journey who "deliver" day after day. The show me rule of startups. 

Talk is cheap, "show me" "Ship it" "sell it"  gets rid of the BS artists. The people you want to have on your team,  show up, do the work, and holding the line on standards.

I’ve built many types of companies.

 I’ve scaled revenue fast. (INC500 awards- fastest growing in America) 
 I’ve made expensive mistakes. (Have yet to lose billions like Zuckerberg, Altman, Musk, Bezos, Every PE and VC, etc) but I have lost hundreds of thousands. 

 I’ve hired wrong, hired right, rebuilt teams, rebuilt systems, and rebuilt myself more than once.

My focus remains clear:

 • Build high-trust teams
 • Demand real accountability
 • Simplify what others overcomplicate
 • Deliver real value to clients 
 • Work with people who actually execute

 I believe in merit.
 I believe in effort.
 I believe in doing the hard things others avoid.

 And I believe most businesses don’t fail from lack of ideas, they fail from lack of operational discipline or hiring the wrong people for crtical roles.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader,"  Aristotle

When you agree to build something ground up with others, make sure you know WIIFM (what's in it for me) applies to you also. 

Don't be Dumb about your future, family and faith.

I help 9-5 employees get richer | Start your secret E-commerce business in 30 days | Build a $10-15k income on the side

Zuckerberg paid 1 hire $1.5 BILLION.  

Then laid off 600 long-term employees.
 
The hire? Andrew Tulloch from Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research monster.
 
This just reinforces the obvious:
 Companies do what’s best for them.
 
Here's what I noticed when working at Nokia Networks:

You’re a cell in a spreadsheet with a dollar value attached.  

They highlight your row, hit delete, and you’re gone.
A state of constant stress and instabilility.

The worst part?
The leadership team enjoyed it:

During headcount meetings I heard a VP utter:
"cool they'll work harder with the news"
 
So do what’s best for you.
Build something you own.

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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can understand or see."

SaaS broke a few years ago, but yeah here we are.

Tech founder x4 exits | Coached 100 founders to raise $1.2B → fundableacademy.com

SaaS just broke. 
It worked for 15 years.
AI killed it in 18 months.

Public market investors see it. They’re selling out.
Private market investors see it. They’re not funding.

This isn’t a correction.
It’s a reckoning.

The VCs who funded your SaaS Series A in 2025?
They’re now betting on the AI startup that will eat you in 2026.

If you want to get funded:
Stop pitching “SaaS.”
Sell results, not seats.
Prove margins expand as usage grows.
Stop saying “we use AI.”
Show what you own: data, distribution or workflow lock-in.

Start selling outcomes or get replaced by someone who is.

Almost any one build a 100k a month business. Those don't sell for 15x to 100x or IPO 500x to 1000x.

Venture math requires Venture understanding.

I was helping a friend with his satellite data product (using live satellite data) when on my screen, a satellite passed "troll station" and I was like (too funny) so of course I had to verify it actually existed. It does

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many,  not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” C-Dickens

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” Oscar Wilde.

Everyone loves a new  AI tech product until this happens.

Lead VC in 100+ investments at company formation

This is insane we were attacked 7,922 times over the weekend after using Clawdbot. 

There are hundreds of Clawdbot servers exposed to the open internet this week. Credential dumps. API keys in plaintext. The thing people missed is that you're not the only input to your agent. Every email it reads, every calendar invite, every webpage it visits is content someone else wrote. Random person DMs you? That's now input to a system with shell access.

If you're going to use it, treat it like onboarding a contractor. Dedicated machine or VPS. Separate accounts. Minimal permissions to start. Run it behind Tailscale so it's not exposed to the public internet. Run clawdbot doctor regularly and let it fix itself.

The bigger idea is that agents need their own identities. Own devices, own accounts, own credentials. Not piggybacking on yours.

Also please stop buying Mac Minis for this. You can run it on AWS free tier in five minutes or a $5 VPS.

"Crossing the chasm" 

No matter what words you use to describe  it, it's the same almost impossible battle. 

As Hard as anything you can do in this life
Lonely - You will lose friends.
Exhausting - Days you cannot get out of bed
Complex - Brain breaking hard

CEO at Designli - staffing Engineering Teams for Non-Technical Software Founders

Everyone loves the idea of being a founder.
But nobody talks about the year where you’ve pivoted four times, your bank account is basically a joke, and your family is quietly wondering when you’ll go get a “real” job.

Those are the years that don’t make it to LinkedIn. The years where nothing adds up except your own stubborn conviction.

Where you’re exhausted from explaining a dream people can’t see. Where you’re questioning everything while still pushing forward because the alternative feels worse than the risk.

Every founder goes through that quiet, brutal stretch.
The one that either breaks you… or turns you into someone who won’t quit.

And in that season, the weight hits hardest when you’re carrying it alone.

A dedicated development team that has your back won’t remove the struggle, but it does change the experience. It gives you people who help hold the line when everything feels shaky.

If you’re in that messy middle right now, you’re not alone; you’re just in the part nobody glamorizes. Keep going.

"burnt peanut" - Yeah he makes 480K a year from his apartment.

The biggest lesson in this next AI wave will be Pay your people Or lose them. 

The workforce has changed and faster than most companies can comprehend.

Not because of “entitlement.
Not because of “laziness.
But because the leverage has shifted and AI is eliminating work. 

 Gen Z grew up watching creators make $100K–$5M/year from bedrooms.

 and Barbara holding on to her HR job, and doing 'what's best for the 2 owners" that model is breaking.  (It's being smashed apart) 

Kids today are digital-native entrepreneurs by default.

They understand optionality better than most executives.

So when companies offer:

 • $52K salaries
 • Bureaucratic approval chains
 • Performative HR policies
 • Miserable middle managers
 • No autonomy
 • No upside

They’re not rejecting “work.” - They’re rejecting bad business owners stuck in 2010.  Policing, Corp Brain washing and all the negative things "uncle Bob" thought made him successful. 

You are no longer competing with the company across the street.

 You’re competing with automatic distribution channels (for any from of content) 

YouTube
TikTok
Substack
Indie startups
AI tools
Freelancing
Personal brands
Creator economies

And here’s the truth no one wants to admit:

Top talent will not tolerate broke compensation models anymore.

If your company depends on:

 “People should just be grateful to have a job here”- You’re already dead.
 
The market just hasn’t informed you yet.

 Pay very well.
 Give autonomy.
 Reward outcomes.

 work on this 24/7 (Titles, Pay, Equity, bonuses, Tech (products) Distribution)

 Or 

watch your business crumble.

Sales in the lifeblood of every business. 

Need help?

I’m a VC who hates most VCs. I live to help people identify and scale their gifts.

Some founders will do literally anything… except sales. 

They’ll:
- Build the product for the 1000th time
- Redesign the landing page (again)
- Do more market research
- Ask ChatGPT for positioning, ICPs, taglines, objections, counter-objections
- Raise money
- Pitch VCs
- Pitch again

But actually go sell?

Absolutely not.

Sales is awkward.
Sales involves hearing “no.”
Sales risks discovering the product isn’t as brilliant as we hoped.

So we stay busy instead.

Product work feels noble.
Research feels responsible.
Fundraising feels prestigious.

Sales feels… personal.

And yes...fear of rejection is definitely part of it.
Not rejection of the product.
Rejection of you.

The irony?
You’ll happily get rejected by 97 VCs…
…but avoid 10 customer conversations like it’s emotional lava.

If you’re avoiding sales, it’s not a strategy problem.

It’s an identity problem.

Anyone in my network a Peptide expert?  

DM Me.

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