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The Private
Growth Office.

A senior operating partner for leading brands, businesses, and portfolio companies.

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We bring senior judgment to your highest-stakes growth decisions, then own the execution and the outcome.

Independent thinking.Senior judgment.Senior execution.
Media
$750M+Media investment managed against margin
Revenue
$2B+Aggregate sales generated for the brands we've worked with
Experience
20+Years building and growing digital businesses
Accountability
1Senior team, accountable for the whole system

Certified partners

Google Partner
Meta Business Partner
Shopify Partners
Klaviyo Partner

Who we help

Built for the owner.
Trusted by the board.

Whether you run a $5M brand yourself or oversee a $2B portfolio company, the question is the same: which growth is worth paying for, and who is accountable for it?

How we hold ourselves

01

Authenticity

We say what the numbers say, with advice given the way an owner would want to hear it.

02

Accountability

The partners who diagnose the problem stay on the business. One team, one plan, definitions agreed upon up front.

03

Results

Measured against your core business goals and KPIs, such as contribution margin and enterprise value.

Selected engagements

The results, and the
business behind them.

All case studies ↗

From global powerhouses and household names to ambitious challengers.

Brands our team has worked with through current and prior engagements.

Amazon
Samsung
AT&T
T-Mobile
Jacob & Co.
Anker
Republic Records
XOJET
TRX
Vaultek
RLTYco
PRIME21
NIC NAC
Farm to People
Tropical Oasis
Amali
Charlie Fox
Calissa
The Realest
Energybits
And more

Selected creative

Attention is
only the start.

Categories we build in
Apparel01Electronics02Fitness03Health & wellness04Consumables05Smart home06Home services07Food & beverage08Real estate09Footwear10

Performance and brand creative that speaks directly to your ideal customer avatar.

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How we think about creative ↗

How we engage

The first 90 days.

A clear path from first engagement to an operating rhythm and system built around your business and team.

Day 0‑14DiagnoseUnit economics, channels, creative, site, and retention, reconciled.
Day 15‑30DecideWhere to focus, invest, and stop. Targets agreed with leadership.
Day 31‑90BuildMedia, creative, pages, and lifecycle rebuilt by the same senior team.
Day 90+CompoundA weekly operating cadence and board-ready reporting.
Contribution margin & profitGrowth worth buying.
DiagnoseDecideBuildCompound

A connected growth team

Eight focuses.
One plan.

Our senior team connects positioning, creative, media, the purchase experience, and retention around the economics of the business.

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01 Performance media & acquisition

Google and Meta strategy, campaign management, budget allocation, and testing, grounded in acquisition cost and profitability.

GoogleMetaBudget allocation
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02 Creative strategy & production
03 Competitive insight & analysis
04 Website & product-page design
05 Conversion & profit optimization
06 Email, SMS & retention
07 Brand & positioning
08 Analytics & measurement
EBITDA versus revenue chart from a performance media review Billboard creative on a city street Competitive insight and analysis board Website and product page design mockup Conversion and profit optimization test results Email and SMS retention flow Brand positioning map: differentiation against relevance 01 / 08

Performance media & acquisition

Google and Meta strategy, campaign management, budget allocation, and testing, grounded in acquisition cost and profitability.

GoogleMetaBudget allocation

Most brands are growing half blind.

Ten dashboards. Five agencies.

Nobody agrees on the number.

And every week, someone has to decide

Where the next dollar goes.

What gets cut.

When to go all in.

Now imagine seeing

every dollar,

every sale,

one truth.

The whole business, on one screen.

From a single ad
to the full P&L.

Live
Medallion dashboard: media, revenue and contribution in one view
Revenue · MTD$4.82M+24% vs last month
Reconciled NB ROAS3.21xOn $1.50M media spend
Daily revenue pulse
New customers
18,406
Introducing

MEDALLION

Intelligence at the scale of your ambition.

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What Medallion does.

Explore Medallion ↗
ShopifyMetaGoogleKlaviyoGA4
One reconciled view
01

Reconciles every source

Shopify, ad platforms, attribution, and email in one view, with definitions agreed up front.

Revenue$4.82M
Media$1.50M
COGS & fees$1.39M
Contribution$1.93M
02

Shows the real economics

Revenue down to contribution margin, so spend is judged by what it earns.

Decision · 014Approved
Shift 12% into retention flows
Owner
Growth lead
Review
Oct 14
03

Logs every decision

Each recommendation has an owner, a metric, and a date to review it.

This week
MonPacing review✓
WedCreative read✓
FriDecision log
04

Runs the weekly cadence

A fixed rhythm of reviews keeps the plan moving and the team accountable.

Hook A · product demo+38%
Hook B · founder story+21%
Hook C · UGC review+12%
05

Learns from creative

Tests are tracked by idea, not just format, so the next brief is better.

Board summary · Q3Contribution up 22% on flat spend. Two decisions for review.
06

Writes the board pack

Clear, P&L-level reporting for owners, boards, and deal teams.

Next-dollar forecastToday
07

Forecasts the plan

Scenario models show what the next dollar of spend is likely to return before it goes out.

Retention flow above targetOn track
Meta CAC down 9% week over weekWin
Checkout CVR up 0.4 ptsWin
08

Flags what changed

Automatic alerts when acquisition cost, conversion, or retention move outside the plan.

Founder & CEO

Jonathan Geller

An operator first. Two decades building and advising digital businesses, trusted by founders, global brands, and cultural icons.

Meet the firm ↗
Jonathan Geller, Founder and CEO
Experience20+Years building and advising digital businesses
Revenue$2B+Sales generated for the brands he has worked with
Recognition30 Under 30Forbes, Media

In their words.

Pharrell Williams
▶

“Jonathan Geller is a savant. A tech freak genius.”

Pharrell WilliamsMusician & icon
Jacob Arabo

“Jonathan sees things before anyone else does. That’s what makes him a force in digital.”

Jacob AraboCEO, Jacob & Co.Jacob & Co.
★★★★★
“Meteoric rise and success.”
Todd OgasawaraTodd OgasawaraWriter
★★★★★
Built “one of the top 25 most influential content destinations in the world.”
Andrew BenkovicAndrew BenkovicEditor

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Ideas with consequences.

All perspectives ↗

Let’s build.

Tell us what you're building, what needs to change, and we’ll take a look.

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$2B+Sales generated for brands we’ve worked with
$750M+Media managed against margin
20+Years building and operating
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