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EquipmentShare co-founder & CEO, YC W15, now public (NASDAQ: EQPT)
Credibility
Traction · 94th percentile
- EquipmentShare went public on Nasdaq (EQPT) with a market capitalization of roughly $6B.
- EquipmentShare has raised approximately $6.7B in total funding across 17 rounds prior to going public.
- EquipmentShare reports ~$4.4B annual revenue with 2,770+ employees — clear operating-business profitability/scale signal.
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Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current CEO and co-founder of EquipmentShare.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator Winter 2015 alum (EquipmentShare).
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Co-founded EquipmentShare with his brother William Schlacks (and Brad Siegler, Jeffrey Lowe, Matthew McDonald).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)equipmentshare.com ranks #199,468 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)3,957 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Serial founder — also founded Schlacks Construction, NASS, Tiger Storage, and others.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)EquipmentShare has raised approximately $6.7B in total funding across 17 rounds prior to going public.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)EquipmentShare went public on Nasdaq (EQPT) with a market capitalization of roughly $6B.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)EquipmentShare reports ~$4.4B annual revenue with 2,770+ employees — clear operating-business profitability/scale signal.
Investor score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)General Partner at Redbud VC.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Co-founded and runs Takeoff Capital (TKF) as General Partner alongside his brother Willy.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Investing experience dating back to founding Takeoff Capital in 2020 (~5 years) and active GP roles at multiple funds.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Holds a current board/advisor role across portfolio companies per Crunchbase.
What you likely need
You're operating at a rare intersection: a newly public unicorn CEO (EquipmentShare on Nasdaq) who also runs two venture funds (Redbud VC and Takeoff Capital) out of Missouri. The most valuable Festival rooms for you are small gatherings with other public-company founder-CEOs navigating post-IPO operating cadence, plus intimate dinners with category-defining founders in vertical-industry tech where your construction operating reps translate. As a GP, curated founder office hours in middle-America-built verticals would also keep your deal funnel full.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- tacticalA small dinner with other recently-IPO'd founder-CEOs (EQPT-era cohort) to compare notes on first-year-public operating cadence, board management, and investor relations.
- introsA YC W15 batch reunion dinner to reconnect with fellow alumni now scaling growth-stage and public companies.
- positioningA roundtable with vertical-industry-tech founders (construction, agriculture, logistics) to swap go-to-market playbooks for selling software into traditional industries.
- fundraisingAn LP-and-emerging-GP happy hour to source institutional LPs for future Redbud VC and Takeoff Capital funds.
- introsA Midwest founder office-hours session in Columbia/Kansas City/St. Louis so Redbud-eligible founders can pitch you in person.
- tacticalA construction-tech operators roundtable to pressure-test the next decade of jobsite telematics, autonomous equipment, and AI-for-rental-fleets bets.
- wellbeingA quiet founder-CEO wellbeing dinner for leaders navigating the personal toll of running a 5,000+ person public company.