Why I built Sixth Strand

I spent nearly twenty years building commercial engines and running P&Ls for other people, some from scratch, others inside businesses with billion-dollar market caps. The details are on my LinkedIn. I would rather talk about the next twenty years. Mine, and hopefully yours.

I applied the same growth methods I used as a C-suite operator to my own transition from executive to owner, and it worked. That process is now documented, structured and repeatable for likeminded individuals through Sixth Strand: a build firm for high-performing operators who want to convert career capital into an asset they control, but might need a helping hand to take the leap. You will have an elite network in your field that can contribute to the business you’re building and the group you soon form part of.

This begins as a highly selective network. Domain experts who still have the drive to perform and who are ready to build alongside one another. Conversations move between growth of what we want to do — commercial infrastructure, scale systems, frontier technology, data obsession — and growth of who we want to be: integrity, perspective, and substance. We care about both. High performance while remaining the kind of person you would want to sit next to.

Sixth Strand exists to convert a career into an asset.