Peter Ombres|Operator & Advisor

The part of the climb nobody prepares you for.

Operator & advisor to first-time founders. Unvarnished.

The Reality

I've been there. I'm on your side.

It's lonely at the top, and nobody tells you it gets lonelier the further you go. I know, because I lived it.

I've been building companies since I was a teenager. Over the last 25 years I've operated at the highest levels of Silicon Valley and deep in the trenches of the startup world. I ran strategy for Google X's Project Loon, built the original business plans for YouTube TV and NFL Sunday Ticket, and led M&A for LinkedIn's largest business. Then I co-founded Curated. I scaled it from zero to 500 people and $75M in revenue, raised $165M from tier-one VCs, and drove it to a $330M acquisition. I built the operating machine from the ground up.

I've raised the capital, sat at the board table, bought companies and sold one, navigated the dynamics nobody warns you about, and lived the part of the curve that comes after the part everyone talks about.

I'm the partner who tells you the truth when everyone else is telling you what you want to hear, and has your back when no one else does.

The Philosophy

A great idea isn't enough. The execution underneath it is everything.

Most companies don't die because the vision was wrong. They die because the operational reality underneath it is harder, messier, and lonelier than anyone tells you. Founders see themselves as visionaries, and then quietly struggle with the actual machinery of scaling the thing.

That's where I come in. I help founders build the operating system that turns a great idea into a real, repeatable company. Real planning. Priorities that actually mean something. Accountability that holds when things get hard.

But a company can't outgrow its founder. So we work on you too. The blind spots, the patterns, the things you can't see because you're too far inside it. Because building something that lasts is as much about who you become as what you build.

The Offerings

How we work together.

Retained Advisory

Strategic Advisory

$5,000 / month

A true thought partner for the founders carrying the hardest, most ambiguous decisions alone. We work together closely every month, roughly four hours of focused, one-on-one time on whatever matters most: the board deck, the raise, the hire you can't get wrong, the call you keep circling. And between those sessions, I'm reachable. When something urgent hits (and in a startup it will), I'm in your corner, not behind a calendar.

Project Sprints

Strategic Sprints

$10,000 – $50,000+ / month

Intensive three-month engagements for companies at an inflection point. I step in to prepare you for a major raise, package the business for an exit or M&A, or install a full operating system across your leadership team.

The Filter

Working together starts with an application.

I take on only a few founders at a time. It's the only way I can do work that actually matters for each one. That's also why I don't do intro calls cold: a short application tells me where you're stuck and whether I'm genuinely the right person to help. No polish required. Just tell me what's breaking down.