Ecosystem partner
Opens doors in a market we are new to: regulators, incumbents, the person who can unstick a licence in a week rather than a quarter.
People
Small on purpose. Everyone here has built something and had something fail, which turns out to be the useful combination when you are starting companies from scratch.
Managing partner
Partner
Build54 Programs Coordinator
Design
Design
Head of engineering
Design lead
Go to market
Studio operations
Venture partners
Independent advisors we bring in for one thing they know better than we do. They sit outside the studio, take no salary from it, and are usually the reason a venture gets through a wall six months early.
Opens doors in a market we are new to: regulators, incumbents, the person who can unstick a licence in a week rather than a quarter.
Sees founders and problems before anyone else does, and sends the ones worth an argument our way.
An institution with distribution, or a problem big enough to build a company against. Sometimes both.
Deep in one domain, on call for the week a venture hits the part nobody in the room has done before.
Has run the thing at scale already. Steps in for a stretch when a company outgrows the people in it.
Open roles
If you want to start companies but not alone, this is the closest thing going.
Full stack, in the room, on whichever venture needs you most this quarter.
Nairobi · full timeBrand one week, onboarding flow the next. Comfortable drawing badly in front of people.
Nairobi · full timeRun the pressure test, then run at the wall with the founder for six months.
Nairobi · full timeFirst revenue for whichever venture is closest to it. You will be closing, not enabling.
Nairobi · full timeOwn the launch: channel, pricing, the first hundred customers. Different market every quarter.
Nairobi · full timeIncorporations, filings, payroll, the residence and the Monday demos. Nothing slips.
Nairobi · full timeBenches, boards and small runs. For the ventures where the product is a physical thing.
Nairobi · full timeData, models and instrumentation for the ventures working closest to the frontier.
Nairobi · full timeNothing above fits but you keep starting things anyway? Write to us regardless.
Always openWhether you are joining the studio or starting a company inside it, the first step is the same.