Hiring

The founding is done. The company is yours.

For former founders back for another swing. For senior operators who've run a P&L from zero to one and one to ten inside a great company. People who know the craft — and know that building alone is no longer the only way.

Who We Look For

Leaders, not hires

What matters is the craft — the kind that survives contact with customers, the kind that turns hypotheses into traction. Former founders who've run the cold start. Operators who've scaled a company from zero to one and one to ten. Both qualify.

Lead a TopCo

CEO seats, by market

Run one of the companies in the keiretsu. Each TopCo is sovereign — its own board, CEO, and P&L — with Exponential as co-founder and chair. The roles below are each looking for their founding operator. Most seats fill by conversation, not posting. If one is yours, write directly.

CEO — Excalibur

Defense

Global

CEO — Shambhala

Asia HoldCo

Asia-Pacific

CEO — Realm

Real Estate

Global

CEO — Principia

LatAm HoldCo

Latin America

CEO — Carthage

Africa HoldCo

Africa

CEO — Avalon

Europe HoldCo

Europe

CEO — Zoe

Healthcare

Global

CEO — Joie de Vivre

Consumer

Global

Operator in Residence

Operator Track

Global

Entrepreneur in Residence

Founder Track

Global

General TopCo CEO Inquiry

Open

Global

The Alignment

A 25% path to ownership at $1B EV

Each TopCo starts capital-owned. Operators earn into it on performance — time-based and milestone-based, on the vesting schedule Invisible proved. 25% to the CEO, 25% to the team, at $1B EV. Cash comp is market-rate; the majority of your compensation is earned as equity, so your net worth builds inside the company you’re leading.

CEO

Up to 25% at $1B EV

50/50 Time & performance-based

TEAM

Up to 25% at $1B EV

Same vesting schedule as CEO

CASH

COMPETITIVE BASE

Majority of comp earned as equity

Ownership vests in tranches across four milestones of enterprise value:

01 $100M EV

First tranche

02 $250M EV

Second tranche

03 $500M EV

Third tranche

04 $1B EV

Full vest

The Experience

What you walk into

Exponential puts in the capital to start the company. We build the shell — incorporation, banking, cap table, counsel, brand, site, AI stack — before you arrive. Then you step in and build the rest.

Never founding alone

Exponential sets up the shell, serves as interim leadership where useful, and supports the raise and first customers alongside the CEO. Some come in before the seed, some during, some after — the sequence varies. What stays constant is the partnership: every step of the founding is shared.

Infrastructure you inherit

Playbooks, AI tooling, capital networks, hiring pipelines, customer introductions, shared back-office — a decade of Invisible’s operating stack, on day one.

Selection

Most seats fill by conversation, not posting. A working session with the founders, reference calls from operators who’ve built with us before, and a shared view of the first six months.

Success, inside the keiretsu

You lead a sovereign company. Mutual equity means every other TopCo’s win is partly yours. You’re never alone — the network is the moat.

Building Exponential itself.

Exponential’s platform team is the small group that stands up every TopCo — a different path through the same ownership architecture.

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The founding is done. The company is yours.

Leaders, not hires

CEO seats, by market

A 25% path to ownership at $1B EV

Up to 25% at $1B EV

Up to 25% at $1B EV

COMPETITIVE BASE

01

$100M EV

02

$250M EV

03

$500M EV

04

$1B EV

Building Exponential itself.

Building Exponential itself.