Adam S.

My life thesis: execution > strategy. Compounding FTW. I'm an optimistic skeptic. Curiosity is the most important quality in life.

I enjoy pattern matching and read widely. The opportunity to learn every day is a gift. Time is precious. The ability to improve what and where I focus and delegate the rest is ideal. 

I [of course] love my family and friends. I believe I am a logical, thoughtful adult and therefore accept my choices. I am content and therefore I have won.

Founder and CEO @Chore. We are a founder's back-office (HR, finance, compliance, equity) operations team. Back-office operations are an undifferentiated tax on success. Focusing on your superpower enables success. Chore handles the rest (i.e. we specialize in ops so you never have to) so you can achieve your dreams. 

Host of the Entrepreneurial Excellence podcast. I dive deep with multi time founders about their key decisions, actions, hires, drivers and more that they use to achieve "excellence." 

General Partner at the Autopilot Fund. We invest in early stage startups. We love obsessed founders who have a history of breaking through walls. I have invested in over 200 startups across multiple funds. 14 are unicorns (8 from seed).

In previous lives, I founded 3 other companies, been a product leader on a big co API team, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and do-it-all janitor. 

I enjoy building great teams, processes, and stories that unify a company around a shared mission. Helping others build successful businesses brings me joy. More successful startups = a better, more dynamic world.

People describe me as energetic, positive, creative, detailed and optimistic. I enjoy rational, logical, data driven debate built on mutual trust and respect. I'm not an engineer but people view me as "technical" and have built companies with the brightest PhDs and brilliant engineers. The best compliment I received was "you ask great questions."

Honesty, trust, fun, a sense of urgency and mission are what I look for in colleagues and places I work. Passion about my product, my company and my team is what drives me. I work hard and enjoy being surrounded by people who do the same. 

"Leave the world (and your business) better than when you arrived..."
"The greatest risk is not taking one!"

Always curious and learning. Subscribe to Entrepreneurial Excellence to learn.

General Partner

The Autopilot Fund focuses on early-stage companies that serve and accelerate how companies operate. 

More about us: https://autopilot.fund/

Operations span various “departments”: could be in engineering, operations, sales, finance, product, customer success… the questions we ask ourselves are:

1. Is this a founding team so capable that others should be afraid to go against them?
2. Do they understand the problem better than anyone, and have special “founder-market” fit?
3. Will they rest until they have dragged the world kicking & screaming into their vision of the future?
4. Is the product “infrastructure” in a manner of speaking: structured data, deeply embedded, sticky?
5. Does the advent of AI exponentially increase or decrease their defensibility?

Our portfolio includes some pretty special companies like AngelList, Pulley, Puzzle, Levels, Disco, among others. 

Smart founders focus. Bad founders distract themselves with all the small, non-product, non-customer work that can easily take up hours but not move your startup forward.

We are sector agnostic and focus mostly on early stage. Our thesis is simple: the best founders come from anywhere, with any background, working in any industry. Focus, joy, dogged determination, and deep knowledge about your product and how you're changing the world is what leads to success.

If you're interested in learning more, drop me a note on LinkedIn.

HR Consultant & Executive Coach

Correlation One

Career Success Coach

Infobase

o	Responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the human resource function for 185 employees nationwide
o	Manage all HR functions, including recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, and counseling staff
o	Implemented and managed training for a number of new programs and systems. 
o	Assisted with five acquisitions of approximately 60 employees joining lnfobase from 2018- 2022
o	Process payroll, review reports for accuracy.
o	Review and make recommendations to executive management for improvement of the organizations policies, procedures, and practices on personnel matters
o	Work directly with department managers to assist them in carrying out their responsibilities on personnel matters
o	Ensure the company is in compliance with federal, state, and local legal requirements and advise management on needed actions, as well as communicate changes in the organization's personnel policies, and procedures to ensure proper compliance is followed
o	Successfully managed a transition from in-office to remote culture and procedures/processes during the pandemic. Attend webinars frequently to remain up to date on the fluid situation and all applicable laws
o	Partner with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion consultant to review current practices and see where there are opportunities to develop further
o	Partner with business consultant to assess and improve the organizational effectiveness of the company

Director of Human Resources

JRM Construction Management

o	Onboard all new employees via a new hire orientation; discuss company structure, policies, benefits and answer any HR related questions.  Helped with the onboard of 200+ employees since 2012
o	Manage JRM's employee self-service system, as well as review and upload all new hire forms into Sage HRMS
o	Manage and enter health benefit information for entire company into the enrollment portals
o	Assist employees, family members, and dependents with insurance related questions and issues as well as review insurance claims and bills
o	Perform monthly follow-ups with new employees to ensure they are getting the necessary training and resources needed to perform their responsibilities, as well as to ensure they are adjusting to the company and culture
o	Manage the recruitment process, including maintaining the relationship with multiple recruitment agencies, reviewing resumes, checking and confirming references, coordinating interviews with department heads, and following up with offer letters
o	Oversee employee expenses on a bi-weekly basis and coordinate approval process with the Executives
o	Set up and administer payments for child support and government payments for garnished employees
o	Perform exit interviews with employees and summarize results to department heads and Executives on a monthly basis
o	Manage time sheet and payroll process for 340+ employees (Including JRM West - California based office) on a weekly basis via Sage
Timberline (Sage 300 is a Construction and Real estate software used for in-house payroll)
o	Perform quality assurance on payroll reports to ensure accuracy
o	Process direct deposits with the bank to ensure pay is properly released to all employees

Human Resources Generalist

OTC Global Holdings LP

o	Maintained customer relationships by monitoring accounts receivables and account details, including non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities
o	Investigated and resolved customer queries
o	Carried out incoming wire transfers and applied payment entries and payment applications
o	Supervised the deposit and application of all checks, including the recording process 
o	Handled the collection and allocation of payments, including all subsequent follow-up tasks Managed deadlines by fulfilling the collection, billing, and reporting of all activities Maintained office supplies on a weekly basis
o	Trade Support: Maintained customer satisfaction by checking daily reports for both the customer and brokers

Administrative Coordinator

Versatile and dynamic human resources professional and certified executive coach with a proven track record of inspiring, motivating, and improving both individual and team performance.  Experience in building employee relations skills and a broad knowledge of human resources practices, from on-boarding employees to managing payroll. 

A history of designing and implementing plans for staff recruitment and development, cultural diversity and conflict management. Demonstrated ability to successfully partner with other departments and executives to achieve objectives.  As a certified executive coach, I am constantly striving to create conscious, inclusive leaders, through curious, candid conversation and the development of emotional intelligence.

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