Patrick Rife

Navigating the Unknown. Building Businesses Along the Way. And Writing About It.

Join me as I embark on a journey to reclaim control, and build businesses that reflect who I am, and where I'm headed.

Founder

Pixilated

Pixilated is a photo booth company based in Baltimore, MD that produces an easy-to-use, shippable photo booth called PixiTAB that is powered by our B2B photo marketing software; PixiCloud. When not acting as the brain for PixiTAB we license the PixiCloud software platform to companies looking to capture 1st party user data at events and venues through photo experiences, forms, surveys, and other experiential marketing activities.

Co-Founder

Baltimore Creators

Our mission: connect Baltimore's business builders. Whether you're an entrepreneur, advisor, or curious learner, Baltimore Creators is for you.

PixiWeb

Event Photo Sharing Simplified: Create custom event websites that allow your guests to post photos directly to a shared event gallery.

Startup Soirée

Startup Soiree was a grassroots entrepreneurial community and event series dedicated to fostering meaningful connections among Baltimore’s founders, creatives, and business leaders. As Co-Founder, I helped create a space where entrepreneurs could engage in candid, no-pitch conversations, exchange insights, and build lasting relationships.

Key initiatives included:

---> Hosting monthly fireside chat events featuring prominent Baltimore entrepreneurs in unique, intimate settings.
---> Developing community-driven content, including a podcast and blog, to share startup stories and insights.
---> Strengthening Baltimore’s startup ecosystem by providing a platform for founders to connect, learn, and grow.

Startup Soiree played a pivotal role in shaping Baltimore’s startup culture, and its legacy lives on in the connections and collaborations it sparked.

Bonsai Fine Arts

Assist museums, galleries and private collectors in caring for their valuable artworks during transit and installation. Lead small focused teams on installations ranging from small sculptural pieces in private galleries to full scale multi-level commercial art installations.

Art Handler

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, U.M.B.C.

Worked closely with Gallery Preparator to develop the physical museum space as it pertains to incoming exhibitions, hung and installed traveling exhibitions, took part in the registration, crate building and technical manuals for the traveling exhibition "For All The World to See."

Gallery Assistant/Art Handler

Contemporary Museum Baltimore

Provided primary interfacing to museum visitors and patrons. Oversaw Museum social media program. Provided technical and clerical support to higher museum staff.

Gallery Assistant

Entrepreneur Building Business and Writing About the Process.

Helping founders & leaders find clarity in chaos | Ground Control Newsletter

I've spent years building companies, communities, and connections. Now I help others navigate their own path forward.

As co-founder of Pixilated and creator of Startup Soirée, I've lived the founder journey - from scaling and strategy to the human side of leadership. But what lights me up isn't just what I built - it's who I became along the way.

What I Do Now:

I work with founders and leaders who are:

- Seeking clarity in their next chapter
- Building something meaningful
- Ready to align who they are with what they do
- Looking for perspective, not just strategy

My Approach:

Think of me as your mirror and prism - helping you see your path more clearly and illuminating possibilities you might have missed. Through deep listening and perspective shifting, we find the clarity you need to move forward with confidence.

Ground Control Newsletter:

Every Wednesday, I share raw insights about leadership, transformation, and finding your way. No guru speak. No formulas. Just real talk about what it takes to build something that matters.

Let's Connect:

- Ready for clarity? DM me
- Want weekly insights? Ground Control newsletter (link in bio)
- Looking for perspective? Let's talk

"The real ROI of human connection isn't measured in quarters. It's measured in years, in lives touched, in moments of breakthrough."

#leadership #transformation #clarity #growth #authenticity

Groove

Groove is the coworking community designed to support people who want to make working from home work for them.
    
Groovers are an incredibly diverse group of people. They’re copywriters, podcasters, brand strategists, photographers, artists, illustrators, growth experts, developers, system designers, and they’re all united by one thing: the desire to pursue their ambitions with passion while also living in work-life-harmony. Groove enables members to do this by helping them harness the most powerful hours of the day. 
    
For Groovers, this is all they need to do for a boost of extra energy and accountability ⬇️

Co-Founder & CEO

On Deck

ODF9 Fellow

inplace

At the intersection of wellbeing and corporate culture.

Chief Product Officer

WeWork

VP, Office of the CEO

Joshua Greene

Clients included WeWork, Mama Group (a division of Live Nation), Olami Foundation, OpenDor Media, Convergence, Wilderness Festival, Smokey Tails and Village Underground.

Senior Strategy Consultant

Village Underground

Managing Director

Mama Group

Strategy Consultant

Metail

Digital Consultant

MBDA

Engineer

Entrepreneurship as a sacred path 📲 CEO @ Groove, WFH coworking community.

I’m the CEO of Groove, a WFH coworking community that helps people live a purpose-driven life.

Throughout my life, I’ve worn all sorts of hats: business owner, freelancer, corporate exec, nomadic traveller, truth seeker, and now, rural farm-living entrepreneur.

While part of me has always tried to fit into ‘the system’ (though it has never worked), another part has been steering me toward carving out my own path - one that feels truer to who I am, rather than the direction society nudges us toward.

I love working from home and plan to do it long into the future. It gives me the flexibility I crave, the ability to be in nature, and more time with the people I love. But it’s not always easy - distractions, isolation, stress, overwhelm… the list goes on.

Along this journey, I’m grateful to have met Tova, Sruli, and Taylor.

🧑‍🚀 We are all incredibly different
🧞 We strive to live our most authentic lives possible
👷‍♀️ We’re driven to make an impact.
👨‍🎤 We’re all workaholics (🙃)
🧚‍♀️ And we’ve found that the best things in our lives have happened alongside other wonderful humans

For us, entrepreneurship is a sacred path - one that challenges us to live authentically and with purpose. 
It’s a state of mind focused on creativity, impact, and collaboration.

Our aim is to not build a business; but to build a life that aligns with your deepest values and helps you surround yourself with people who want to see you grow.

If my journey and our values resonate with you, we’ve built Groove as the community to help you live the life you want, from wherever you are.

It is a structured, intentional 1-hour work sessions powered by accountability from the community, paired with social time to build relationships. (Trust me, these sessions create the most powerful time in your day!)

Alongside this, we’ll help you:

📣 Find your people within the community
🧗 Accomplish your bigger goals with weekly accountability groups
🛝 Make time for play with the community at ‘Recess’
💪 Get the support you need to make working from home great

It isn't just another coworking space. It’s an online community full of people with meaningful, ongoing, supportive relationships, cheering each other on to have more great weeks.

It’s the feeling of having an abundance of people on your team, supporting you to thrive in life, “do you,” move forward, and expand.

🏄‍♀️ Follow me to be a part of this journey where I share content about not fitting in, working from home, community, and startups.

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