Become an unstoppable entrepreneur
Elevate to new levels of entrepreneurship by becoming a founder of a business you are uniquely meant to build, alongside co-founders deeply invested in you
Adriane Schwager
Adriane had 15 years of HR experience. She'd seen companies struggle to find, train and retain entry-level marketing talent. She created a business around the problem. It exploded to $5M MRR in 12 months.
- $0 to $5M MRR in first 12 months
- Key clients include Door Dash and Hubspot
- Grew team from founder led to over 50+ in US/PH
Kasey Grelle
Starting her career as a news anchor, Kasey became a professional story-line researcher, setting her on a road of entrepreneurship and due diligence. Kasey and Jesse combined their skill set to co-found Aux Insights where Kasey’s investigative reporting keyed the way for the success of this digital marketing consulting business.
- Profitable within first 100 days
- 40+ sales meetings with leading private equity firms in first 60 days
- Grew team from founder led to 5 full-time in first 100 days
Andrew Warner
After college, Andrew built a greeting card company to over $30 million in sales. He followed it with Mixergy, the original startup interview podcast. But he kept hitting a financial ceiling as a bootstrapper. When Jesse showed him how big bootstrapping can get, they partnered to build BG together.
- Profitable in month one
- +$100k of profits in the first quarter of business
- Sponsors like Notion, Superhuman, and Rippling on day one
Carolyn Horner
After closing her first startup, Carolyn knew she needed to understand growth marketing, finance and product unit economics more. For the second time, Carolyn is building a new D2C brand with Gateway X. They will do over $3M of ARR in less than 18 months in market.
- $0 to $3M revenue, break-even, and growing
- Improved ROAS from 0.7x to 1.5x leveraging proven paid acquisition playbooks
- Iterated on product development to find product-market fit in less than 1 year
We play to our sweet spots
We build in D2C, e-scommerce, and digital marketing where our edge combined with yours takes us from idea to profitability in months, not years.