Built for the new world, not patched onto the old

Craig Powell is a serial entrepreneur from the northwest corner of Missouri who started his first business at the age of nine and his first software company at twenty-two. In the decades since, he has built and scaled data-driven software businesses from zero to $200M in revenue, growing every company he’s founded or operated past $10M in ARR — a threshold fewer than one in ten SaaS companies ever reach — and creating shareholder value from $10M to more than $1.5B.

His formula has stayed the same throughout: attract the right people, focus them on the right things, and empower them to run fast. His experience spans the full spectrum of building software companies — product, sales, and operations — paired with a lifelong refusal to accept the status quo as the right answer.

Craig is a graduate of Brown University, where he captained the wrestling team, served in student government, and received the Cliff Stevenson Award for Outstanding Leadership. He is the founder of Show-Me Academy, a wrestling club that develops young athletes’ — boys’ and girls’ — confidence that they can achieve whatever they set their minds to, and the willingness to do the hard work to get there. He is the father of three.