We keep working on a company after it launches.
Premier helps set up the product and the business behind it, then stays on for finance, operations, and the larger decisions as the company grows.
Build, operate, scale.
Each company goes through these three stages with us. Premier's role changes at each one. Decisions about customers and the market stay with the company.
Build
Pick one problem customers run into again and again, and build a narrow product for it.
Operate
Keep working on the business after it ships: the product, the books, and the day-to-day running of the company.
Scale
Hire, sell more widely, and add infrastructure once demand is there to pay for it.
What Premier handles centrally.
Some jobs are easier to do once across the portfolio than separately in each company. Premier takes those on, which gives each company's team more time for product and customers.
Product and technology
Product direction, engineering, design, and the infrastructure the products run on.
Strategy
Which markets to enter, how the business makes money, and what to work on next.
Finance
Budgets, reporting, controls, tax and compliance, and where capital goes.
Operations
Customer operations, vendors, internal processes, and documentation.
Growth
Sales channels, partnerships, hiring, and new markets.
Who decides what.
Premier makes the ownership and capital decisions. Anything that depends on a company's customers, product, or market is decided inside that company.
Shared through Premier
- Ownership and capital allocation
- Finance, reporting, controls, and company infrastructure
- Selected product and technology systems
- Lessons from one company that apply to the others
Owned by each company
- Product roadmap and customer experience
- Brand, category positioning, and distribution
- Customer relationships and market-specific decisions
- Day-to-day calls about the product and its customers