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I’m Chris Schultz. I advise founders and leaders as they build companies and make big decisions. I also build software with AI—and teach people to run and improve it.
I spent 25 years building software. At one point, we had 60 developers. We wrote the first lines of code for a product that went from prototype to unicorn.
When Galvanize announced the acquisition, I got this note from Dan, the original founder and CEO at exit.
From prototype to unicorn.
Two years after closing our development firm, AI got me building again—personally. I started Launch Pad Foundation’s platform on my phone at a car wash, then kept going.
Now I take on a small number of focused Build + Transfer engagements: a product, internal tool, or better way of working. I bring the experience, build it with you, and leave you able to run and improve it yourself.
Focused engagements start at $10,000.
What do you want to build? →First believer.Still in your corner.
I wrote Patrick’s first check when he was starting Lucid and became a founding board member. Over the next eleven years, I was a friend and a sounding board, helping however I could as he built the company.
The $1.1 billion acquisition made the headlines. But most of being in someone’s corner happens long before that.
FounderPatrick Comer
First investorFounding board memberChris Schultz
That’s where I’m most useful: getting to know you and your business, thinking through the hard decisions together, and helping you figure out what to do next.
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The next thingdoesn’t have to looklike the last.
After a kid and the pandemic, Anne and I were craving live music and being with people again. So we started Cosmico, now called Analog Reunion.
A music producer friend cautioned, “You can buy a lot of VIP tickets for the money you’ll spend on a music festival.”
He was right. We did it anyway—because making something real with our family, for our community, was the payoff.
The good life is now.
Writing Analog helped me make sense of what I’d learned—from my dad, from building companies, and from the life Anne and I were creating.
Agency, joy, and meaning. Not something to save for retirement, but something to build into your life now.
That thinking comes with me when we work together.
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Advisory
An experienced sounding board for the company you’re building and the decisions ahead.
Explore Advisory →Build + Transfer
I build your software—and teach you to run and improve it.
Build engagements start at $10,000.
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