I help founder-led companies find the revenue they're leaving on the table.
The Krowne Company is the private fractional practice of Michael Krowne — a portfolio operator who embeds with one or two founder-led companies at a time. Not a consultant. Not an agency. An operator in the building.
- Term
- 12 months · 90-day arcs
- Roster
- 1–2 clients at a time
- Invest
- $10–25K / month
Every founder-led company hits the same wall.
There's a point where the thing that got you here quietly stops working. The revenue is real but it's lumpy. Acquisition costs more than it did a year ago and you're not totally sure why. The customers you've already won aren't giving you much past that first sale. Your team is busy. Everyone's working. The needle just isn't moving the way it should.
You don't need another agency, and you definitely don't need another consultant who shows up with a slide deck and a recommendation to "align on KPIs." You need someone who has stood exactly where you're standing, more than once, and knows where to look first.
"The trick isn't working harder. It's knowing which thread to pull first."
- Every decision still routes through you.
- Your team is busy, but execution is inconsistent.
- Acquisition costs more than it used to.
- Revenue is real but unpredictable.
Where the work has been done.
Two decades operating inside founder-led companies across tech, adtech, e-commerce, and nonprofit.
Operated across the portfolios of Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Eytan Elbaz, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Three things, done over and over for twenty years.
Find the money your existing customers aren't giving you yet.
Pricing, packaging, add-ons, the second and third ask, lifecycle, retention. Most companies are leaving a serious chunk of customer value on the table and don't see it because they're looking at the top of the funnel. I find it and build the systems that capture it.
Build the acquisition engine that gets you to the next stage.
Funnel diagnostics, channel strategy, referral systems, CAC discipline, attribution that tells you the truth. Less theater, more pipeline. And it's usually funded by the revenue we freed up in the first place.
Lead through the inflection, embedded.
In your exec meetings. In your Slack. In the standups. Owning the outcome next to you, not running plays from the sideline and emailing you the results.
Twenty years. One playbook, run again and again.
turnarounds led across the Cuban / Wagner portfolio
revenue growth on a single fundraising program
in client revenue driven by the agency he runs today
fractional clients at a time, on purpose
Twenty years inside founder-led companies. Currently running four.
I help founder-led companies that have hit a revenue ceiling find the money hiding in plain sight, then build the engine for the next stage.
I'm a sober entrepreneur and second-in-command operator who has spent two decades inside companies at the inflection point — from the Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner portfolio to a stalled nonprofit fundraiser to the four companies I run today. The Krowne Company is where I take what I've learned operating inside those businesses and bring it to one or two founder-led companies a year that need it.