A Different Kind of Venture
As a venture studio, we launch companies from scratch that solve problems and create profound value for our people.
We build businesses.
Born from a vision for a better way to work, the nth Venture studio has grown from humble beginnings into a powerful movement to set talented people free through the power of ownership.
Ownership for everyone drives value for everyone.
The academic literature is crystal clear when it comes to incentive alignment and we’re a living example of it.
At nth Venture, we’ve created a model that is fulfilling and inspiring to employees and gives them true skin in the game, no matter their level within the organization.
One of the main reasons we’ve been able to launch multiple businesses worth millions of dollars in under a year is simply giving everyone a piece of the pie.
Our Launch Process
As celebrated by:
"Sam and the team have created a special sauce for building innovative new businesses" - David Wan
Director & Retired Chief Executive
We don’t give tips and hold happy hours. We’re hands-on builders.
We start with ideas generated internally by the studio team, find the very best executives in the world to build them out, and spend six months supporting them as they build out an organic growth machine business.
Profit-Sharing & Equity Comp
nth Venture’s deep alignment philosophy allows us to reliably place world-class talent.
Both in the studio and in our ventures – we lean heavily into aligning teams together through profit-sharing and equity incentives. The result is all our people are intensely focused on organizational performance in ways that drive long-term value and minimize early costs. The combination of our inertia-overcoming compensation structure with a seasoned studio staff and launch process has created a value-generation machine with our goal of widespread ownership at the heart.
Why It Works
Strong Bias to Autonomy
Our incentive structure means we get to spend less time managing performance and more time building. Our teams work where, when, and on what makes sense. People deserve ownership not only in the places they work, but of their lives. We make certain they get both here.
Radical Incentive Alignment
We believe that tying pay to hours worked is an unfortunate vestige of the industrial revolution that isn’t a great fit for the modern working world. By compensating our people on a profit-sharing basis we unlock the extraordinary power of durable, high-performance teams.
Effective Support
We provide a top-flight working platform for great talent so they can focus on doing their life’s best work and build businesses that make an impact. Our functional support and shared services give our ventures more bandwidth to focus on being exceptional in their field.
Investment Philosophy
Our investment philosophy is centered around the exceptionally clear results of decades of academic work and practicing exemplars like Berkshire Hathaway, Markel and DFA that can be expressed in a single sentence.
Invest for the long-term,
minimize fees,
ensure proper – but not excessive – diversification
in straightforward businesses
with passionate, effective and high-integrity managers.
We apply those principles in the studio to create a portfolio of strong, resilient companies where people can work long-term and see the fruits of their labor. We just get in earlier than everybody else.