I build businesses worth owning.
I'm Zach Strauss. I've founded, scaled, and exited companies, and built the revenue systems underneath them. Today I operate a private portfolio from Columbus.
One PE, two strategic
Recognized for growth
Enterprise and GTM
I treat revenue like a portfolio.
I started in Fortune 500 enterprise sales, carrying a quota and learning that pipeline is built on human decisions, not dashboards. That foundation still shapes everything I do.
Since then I've founded, scaled, and exited companies, three of them so far, and built the go-to-market engines underneath each one. I treat revenue the way an investor treats a portfolio: a set of mechanisms you can measure, weight, and rebalance.
Today I operate at the intersection of sales methodology, AI-native systems, and the relational work that no model can replace. The tools change. The reason people buy does not.
Revenue is not a mystery. It's an architecture.
A holding company with an operator's discipline.
We build cash-flowing businesses worth owning, with the discipline to sell the ones worth selling.
Revenue Portfolio Theory
My forthcoming book reframes growth as a portfolio problem. Six revenue mechanisms, each with its own behavior, cost, and decay. The job of a founder is not to pick one. It's to weight them.
Portfolio
Theory
Build the strategy. Roll up the sleeves. Drive revenue.
Most advisors hand you a deck and disappear. I set the go-to-market strategy and then execute it with you — turning it into real pipeline value and closed-won revenue. Part operator, part strategist, in the work either way.
Building something that needs predictable revenue?
Whether you're scaling a company, fixing a go-to-market motion, or want to compare notes as an operator, I'm reachable.