Work with me
You raised your round. You hired your team. You have a board, a roadmap, and more Slack channels than you can keep up with.
But the hardest decisions—the exec hire you’re agonizing over, the reorg nobody wants to talk about, the board conversation you’re not sure how to have—those, you’re mostly making alone.
That’s where I come in.
What this is
Anthimeros is my advisory practice—the name comes from anthimeria, the linguistic term for using a noun as a verb. I advise a small number of startup founders (really—four or five at a time, that’s it). It means I actually get to know your business and what you’re dealing with, and I’m not cycling through a dozen clients and showing up cold to each call.
We’ll figure out a meeting rhythm that works for you and I’m available async for the things that can’t wait.
Why me
I was employee #35 at Uber. I spent more than six years there, from the early days through 25,000+ employees, through everything that went right and everything that didn’t.
Since then I’ve been a Chief of Staff, a CMO, and an advisor to founders working through the same things I lived through. How do you redesign an org that worked at 20 and is breaking at 50? How do you have the board conversation nobody wants to have? That kind of thing.
I don’t work from frameworks or playbooks, because the world is moving too fast for off-the-shelf advice to keep up. But I’ve got 15 years of experience seeing how startups scale and where things tend to go wrong.
Who I work with
I work with founders who are willing to let me see the messy parts. Not the board deck version—the real thing. That’s how I give good advice.
I care more about doing this well for a few people than doing it at scale. If you’re doing interesting work and want someone who’ll be honest with you, let’s talk.
The first conversation is always free. Bring your hardest current problem.