HIRING

THE SCAFFOLDING HAS BEEN BUILT.

IT'S TIME TO BUILD.

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.

BECOME A HOLDCO CEO

CEO seats, by market

Run one of the HoldCos in the keiretsu. Each HoldCo 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.

Avalon

Services

Europe

Shambhala

Services

Asia-Pacific

Carthage

Services

Africa

Zoe

Healthcare

Global

Joie de Vivre

Consumer

Global

Mysteries

Entertainment

Global

Operator in Residence

Operator Track

Global

Entrepreneur in Residence

Founder Track

Global

General HoldCo CEO Inquiry

Open

Global

HOLDCO CEO ALIGNMENT

A 25% path to ownership at $1B EV

Each HoldCo 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, so they can focus on building.

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

So they can focus on building.

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

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, close the remaining $5M of the seed round, and build the first business units.

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.

Exponential’s platform team is the small group that stands up every HoldCo.
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