The room your board should be.

Every session inside Full Stack CEO is led by operators who've built real companies, hit real ceilings, and figured out what's on the other side. Not coaches. Not theorists. People with receipts.

They run Tuesday and Thursday sessions, lead lab cohorts, review pitches, and answer the questions you can't ask anywhere else.

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what they have achieved
$1.2B+

Raised by operators in the network

23+

Exits and acquisitions

12

Unicorns built or scaled

4

IPOs

25+

Active operator mentors

These aren't advisors. These are operators who've been in your seat, made your decisions, and are back in the room every week to help you make yours.

For Growth-Stage SaaS CEOs

FEATURED OPERATORS

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Betty Mok
SVP Marketing · Consensus ·  
ex-LinkedIn, Pendo, Intuit, AmEx

GTM
MARKETING

Built LinkedIn's Talent Solutions demand gen engine from scratch — $100M+ in annual new bookings, 3x growth, team of 20+ global marketers. Then took Pendo's full performance marketing org (demand gen, customer marketing, PLG, digital). Now SVP Marketing at Consensus and an active mentor inside Full Stack CEO, leading Thursday sessions on GTM, positioning, and demand.

What she brings to Full Stack CEO: The demand gen and product marketing playbook from companies that did it at scale — translated for founders who are doing it for the first time.

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Todd Etchieson
Fractional CPO · Apex Solutions
ex-Conversica, New Relic, Nike, Nortel

Product

The SaaS messy middle ($7M–$25M ARR) is where product organizations break. Todd has seen it from every angle — CPO at a GenAI revenue platform, VP Product at New Relic where he took Insights from 0 to $100M ARR and through IPO, and Director at Nike. Today he runs Apex Solutions installing product operating systems for SaaS founders who need to stop refereeing roadmap fights and start scaling.

What he brings to Full Stack CEO: Product engine diagnosis — where it's breaking, what to fix before it costs you momentum.

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Alon Maltzov
Product Leader & 2x Founder
ex-Teikametrics, MyCheck

Product
AI

Built two companies and scaled a third. His first exit came when adjusti.co — a digital shelf analytics platform he built from scratch — was acquired by Teikametrics. Post-acquisition, he ran the Market Intelligence platform, scaled ARR from $15M to $25M, and cut churn by 55% in 18 months. Before that, employee #7 at a FinTech, leading product across 6 squads and 20+ launches across global markets.

What he brings to Full Stack CEO: AI product strategy, 0→1 mechanics, and the churn and retention levers that most founders don't touch until it's too late.

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Sachin Shah
Founding CTO · Avenoir Digital
ex-Bain & Co (NPSx), Accenture

Product
AI
tech

Built the engineering org at NPSx — a Bain-backed AI/ML SaaS startup — from zero to 45 people, scaling four products while maintaining 50/50 gender diversity in leadership and an eNPS of 50+. Before that, 13+ years as Principal Architect at Accenture, delivering critical national infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. Now runs Avenoir Digital as a Fractional CTO for founders navigating the AI-native stack.

What he brings to Full Stack CEO: Technical architecture, AI strategy, and the CTO lens that founders need before they make expensive engineering decisions.

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Mark Nelson
Serial Entrepreneur & Operator
Pivot Fuel · Foodie Box Love

OPERATIONS
GTM
FOUNDER

Five companies built across SaaS, e-commerce, logistics, and data analytics. Co-founded Applimation (acquired by Informatica) and Revelstone (SaaS platform for local governments). Scaled Perishable Shipping Solutions to acquisition by Lineage Logistics. Rooted in Oracle, Coopers & Lybrand, and enterprise operations. Brings the full lifecycle — build, operate, exit.

What he brings to Full Stack CEO: Operations, customer success, and the founder perspective on building companies that actually get acquired.

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Bill Kahlert
Founder & GTM Strategist · The 834 Group · Advisor, Aventra Capital · Techstars & Alchemist Mentor

GTM
AI

Three successful exits over 20+ years in B2B SaaS and AI-powered marketing. Built a global marketing automation platform from zero to 6,000 users in 65 countries — without outside capital — and earned G2 Crowd "High Performer" for 22 consecutive quarters. Now advises 24+ B2B SaaS and AI companies through Techstars, Alchemist, and university programs. Also an Aventra Capital advisor.

What he brings to Full Stack CEO: Customer acquisition, AI GTM, lead pipeline — and the founder honesty that only comes from three exits.

The Operators & Mentors

People who've been there. And came back with a map.

Not coaches who read about it. Founders, operators, and investors who ran CAC payback at scale, lived board pressure, rebuilt after setbacks. They're in the room because they know what it actually costs — and how to fix it.

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Yashar Ahmadpour
Founder & CEO · Impressive
ex-Advice Analytics (acquired)
Product
GTM
AI

📍Location:
San Francisco, CA

Serial founder building at the frontier of AI. His last company, Advice Analytics, was acquired. Now building Impressive — a platform that creates revenue-ready agentic businesses from a single written request. Previously VP of CX at PEAR Health Labs, Head of Product at GameGrid, product advisor to AI compliance and data platforms. Deal Partner at Boardy. CX Advisory Board at UC Irvine.

What he brings:
The early-stage AI founder perspective — what it actually looks like to build at the intersection of AI and product when the rules haven't been written yet.
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Vivek Bedi
Head of AI & Product · Litera
ex-CPO Sortly, SimplifyVMS, LearnVest, Goldman Sachs
Product
AI
aCQUISITIONS

📍Location:
New York, NY

$2B+ in acquisitions across his career. Scaled Sortly ARR 3x as CPO. Led product at SimplifyVMS — acquired for ~$500M. Built Northwestern Mutual's first digital platform serving 4.3M customers — $500M+ in revenue. Spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in senior product and engineering leadership. Now leading AI and product innovation at Litera.

What he brings:
Product-led growth, AI integration strategy, and the operator's eye for acquisition readiness — from someone who's been on both sides of the table.
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Indy Sen
GTM Advisor & Fractional Leader
ex-Canva, Google, Salesforce, Box, MuleSoft, WeWork, Matterport
Product marketing
GTM
platforms

📍
Location: San Francisco, CA

Three IPOs. Zero to one at every one of them. Founded platform marketing at Box pre-IPO, rebooted developer marketing at MuleSoft pre-IPO, led G Suite's developer GTM at a $2B run rate, built global product marketing from scratch at Matterport — then took it public on the Nasdaq. Named Top 100 Product Marketing Mentor four years running. Now a fractional GTM advisor to Redis, HeavyBit portfolio, and Full Stack CEO.

What he brings:
GTM architecture, platform and ecosystem marketing, PLG vs SLG strategy — from someone who's launched things that millions of people actually use.
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Juan Carlos Soto
Board Chairman & Venture Partner · Shasta Ventures · Vaadin
ex-IBM VP, Informatica, Sun Microsystems
CAPITAL
TECH
BOARD

📍Location:
Berkeley, CA

13 years as VP at Sun Microsystems. Led IBM's multi-billion dollar Hybrid Cloud Integration portfolio — IBM MQ, API Connect, Kafka, Aspera, DataPower. SVP/GM at Informatica. CEO of StrongLoop, acquired by IBM. Now Venture Partner at Shasta Ventures and AZ-VC, Board Chairman at Vaadin, and active across several early-stage tech boards. Holds patents in grid computing, distributed systems, and content delivery.

What he brings:
Enterprise technology strategy, board governance, and the investor-operator lens from someone who has been at the table at IBM, Sun, and multiple VC-backed boards simultaneously.
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Manickkam Pandian
Head of Product · Zillow
ex-PayPal (10+ years)
Product
AI
PLATFORMS
FINTECH

📍Location:
San Francisco, CA

Managed a $45B portfolio at PayPal. Launched Brazil PIX, reduced fraud 10%, saved $3M a year. Built the carding risk module from scratch — $25M+ in transaction cost savings. At Zillow, leads the Industry Data Insights team, removed 3.4M+ property duplicates, drove 35% revenue growth from property managers. $100M+ in operational savings across his career.

What he brings:
Platform product strategy, AI/ML risk systems, and the data foundation decisions that separate scalable companies from ones that hit a wall at $10M.
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David Ehrlich
CEO & Board Chairman · Genovia Care ·
ex-Aktana (12 years), McKinsey, Stanford
capital
ceo operations
AI

📍Location:
San Francisco, CA

200% CAGR over five years as CEO of Aktana — an AI-driven GTM optimization platform for life sciences. Built a global team across 50 countries, won 7 of the top 10 pharma companies as customers. Before that, McKinsey's Asian Technology Leadership Team. Board Director across 10+ companies. Stanford undergrad and grad. Brings a rare combination of CEO operating depth and board governance acumen.

What he brings:
How to build a global company, what investors actually look for, and CEO decision-making at the stage where one wrong move costs two quarters.

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Sam Palazzolo
Fractional CRO & Capital Strategist ·
Tip of the Spear Ventures ·  ex-Deloitte
gtm
CAPITAL
REVENUE

📍Location:
New York, NY

Scaled 15+ organizations from $5M to $500M+. Two PE exits from $0 to $15M in under 18 months. One $75M to $1B growth journey inside a single organization. Former Deloitte Senior Managing Consultant leading GTM and revenue transformations for enterprise clients. 8x published author. Adjunct faculty at UNLV. Brings board-level revenue accountability to founders who need it before the board asks.

What he brings:
Revenue system architecture, pipeline discipline, raise readiness, and the diagnostic clarity that makes revenue move again.
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Denis Descause
Serial Founder & CEO · Sencial
ex-Flashbrand (acquired), SAP, BCG
AI
GTM
M&A

📍Location:
New York, NY

25+ years building, scaling, and exiting technology businesses. Founded Flashbrand — an AI-powered HR SaaS serving millions of users, including LVMH — and led it to strategic acquisition. At SAP, generated €200M+ in new SaaS revenue, shaped the M&A roadmap behind SuccessFactors, Ariba, and BusinessObjects. Before that, BCG. Equally at home as CEO, CPO, or CRO.

What he brings:
What it actually takes to build a profitable, acquirable AI SaaS from scratch — and the enterprise GTM muscle that most early-stage founders have never seen up close.
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Megan Ketchum
Marketing & GTM Executive
ex-Rippling, Faire, LinkedIn, Bain
gtm
demand gen
multi-product

📍Location:
San Francisco, CA

Drove $175M in new business as LinkedIn's Demand Gen leader — 25% annual growth. Re-tooled product marketing at Rippling to support its shift to a multi-product operating system. Before that, scaled Faire's marketplace through event, content, and nurture marketing. Started at Bain, where she advised Fortune 500s on strategy, M&A, and new market entry. Kellogg MBA.

What she brings:
Multi-product GTM, demand generation at scale, positioning and ICP clarity for founders who are about to make their first big marketing hire.
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Mitali Saxena
Serial Founder & CEO · Fashom
Awareness Intelligence · TEDx Speaker
FOUNDER
GTM
AI

📍Location:
Miami, FL

Built Fashom — an AI-powered fashion platform — to multimillion dollar revenue in the first year, with no outside funding, serving 50,000+ customers. Built a proprietary AI recommendation engine that cut returns 30%. Team of 40+ across three countries. TEDx speaker on mindfulness in leadership. Professor at Istituto Marangoni. Rare combination of AI founder, executive coach, and operator.

What she brings:
0→1 with AI, DTC growth, and the founder resilience conversation that everyone needs but no one on a traditional board will have with you.
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Alex Elkin
CPO & Serial Founder
ex-airSlate, ABBYY, TimelinePI (exit)
Product
FOUNDER
AI

📍Location:
Boston, MA

Three successful exits over 25 years. Started in theoretical physics, built one of the first BPM platforms in 1997, one of the most flexible BI platforms in 2003, and the leading process analysis platform in 2015 — all the way to acquisition by ABBYY. Then CPO at ABBYY and airSlate. Currently working on changing how talent is hired.

What he brings:
Deep product craft, the 0→1 founder instinct that most CPOs don't have, and 25 years of pattern recognition across platform categories.
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Bomani Mintz-Johnson
Product Leader & Founder · Local Roast
ex-Eventbrite, LinkedIn
Product
GTM
MARKETPLACES

📍Location:
San Francisco, CA

11+ years across the full lifecycle — sales, customer success, operator, product. At Eventbrite, led AI-powered discovery for millions of users and the global brand and app redesign. At LinkedIn, built and scaled a $20M+ customer success book of business. Founded Crave It from zero to 100K community members across 800+ cities, raising $850K. Now building Local Roast — a taste-intelligence-powered coffee discovery platform.

What he brings:
Marketplace product strategy, community building, and the founder-operator blend that comes from having been every role before building the thing.
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Mukta Dhanuka
Product Lead · Meta
ex-Block/Square, SAP (11 years)
Product
AI
COMMERCE
B2B2C
📍Location: San Francisco, CA

11 years at SAP across 25 industries, building platforms for enterprises ranging from Fortune 50 to SMB. Then Block/Square, scaling the omnichannel commerce platform serving millions of businesses. Now at Meta in Responsible Monetization, steering high-stakes product changes across the ad ecosystem for users, advertisers, and creators. Startup advisor for 8+ years in parallel.

What she brings: Enterprise product strategy, B2B2C platform mechanics, and the regulatory and monetization complexity most founders won't face until they're much bigger — but need to understand now.
The Room

Operators who've run it for real.

Exited founders, active investors, and senior operators who've built through the exact inflection points you're facing. Each of them is here to say the thing your board won't.

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How they plug in

They don't advise from a distance.

Our operators are part of the working system behind Full Stack CEO™. They join live AMAs, appear at events, support stage-based Labs, and share practical guidance inside the CEO Operating Room — so founders learn from people who've actually operated through growth, pressure, and scale.

Inside the CEO Operating Room

Weekly AMAs. Practical conversations. Direct feedback on GTM, metrics, and leadership challenges — from operators who've run the same problems.

In public events

Live sessions with founders, operators, and investors on SaaS growth, AI, fundraising, and execution. No slides. No pitches. Just the conversation.

Inside the Labs

Stage-specific support for Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A founders working through real inflection points. Your actual numbers, worked live.

Across the network

Ongoing introductions, operator pattern recognition, and deal flow for founders who've earned the access. The room that keeps opening doors.

THE ROOM IS OPEN

Three ways to get inside.

Every week, founders at your stage are in this room — getting direct feedback on their numbers, their GTM, and their raise from operators who've done it. The only difference between them and you is that they showed up.

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Enter the CEO Operating Room.

Weekly sessions, Slack access, session library. The ongoing conversation with operators at your stage.

Next session: Tuesday 28th · 9AM PST · 12PM EST · 6PM CET

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LABS

Apply for your Stage Lab.

12 weeks. Your stage. A cohort of founders doing the same work at the same time.

No application. Cancel anytime. Your first session is this week.

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LIVE EVENTS

Come to a free sessions this week.

Tuesday (Pre-Seed), Wednesday (Seed), and Thursday (Series A & B)  sessions, free. Come before you commit.

Applications open. 2 founders can split the cost.

$1.2B+ raised by operators in your room
23+ exits
12 unicorns built or scaled
4 IPOs
25+ operators every week