Meet Our Team
Nick Johnson
co-founder
Operations, Finance, Automation & Systems Design
Nick’s not a Dad yet, but he definitely brings the Dad energy. If he could vaccinate a company to protect it from future harm, he would (vaccine politics aside — it’s a metaphor, ok).
Nick has raised 10’s of millions for startups, and has designed, built, and operated multiple highly automated manufacturing facilities.
Corey Morrow
co-founder
Org Design, Strategy, HR, Leadership Coaching
When his head’s not in the clouds, Corey is likely using his sommelier skills to sniff out and technically articulate your problems.
After a decade of owning and working in high-end, high-pressure service businesses, Corey has spent the last 6 years helping founders and their teams scale with grace. He holds a M.A. in Organization Development and certificates in Futures Thinking and Brain Based Coaching.
Josh Adams
partner
Physical Product Design & Manufacturing
Josh is somehow an aerospace engineer and a biomedical engineer. He also seems like something of a happiness engineer.
Josh has 12 years in entrepreneurial business development. Between design, prototyping, and manufacturing, “Professor Josh” is educating the next generation with skills which will no longer be needed by the time that they graduate.
Joey Del Re
partner
Joey might have missed his calling as a theoretical physicist. Luckily he traded in string theory for some guitar strings.
Joey has been in digital marketing, SEO, and analytics since 2010, when the world was unknowingly about to come grips with Google Panda.
SEO Strategy
What Drives Us:
The Paradox of the Whole & the Parts
What happens to people when they get together to work on something? There’s an awe-inspiring capacity to produce something much greater than the sum of the parts.
Paradoxically, the whole can also feel like so much less than the sum of its parts. We have experienced great ideas dying in the hands of independently brilliant individuals (the parts), just inches from the finish line. It’s often tempting to blame this person or that circumstance, but where — and when — did things really begin to go wrong?
Working with these wicked problems is what drives us.
Using the challenges of today as an excuse to prevent challenges of tomorrow drives us.
Building a community to shape the future of the startup landscape and cut the failure rate of startups to 25% by 2050 drives us.