From the Team Behind $38.8M Raised in 2.5 Years

$1 Million in 12 MonthsAccelerator

For Founders WithProven Demand.

We Plug In.We Build With You.

We don’t just hand you a plan,we build you a growth engine.

A special ops plug & play brand & growth accelerator team of experts for your mission-driven business.

Built with you. Run with you. Owned by you.

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Who the Brand and Growth Accelerator is for

Founder BusinessGrowth Problems

White man in a grey blazer, business casual founder

“We have traction, but our positioning is muddy.”

You do not need louder marketing. You need a market story customers, investors, and your own team can repeat.

Black woman in a casual hoodie, founder

“Leads come in, but they are not converting.”

We diagnose the ICP, offer, proof, funnel, and sales handoff, then build the system that turns attention into qualified pipeline.

Black woman in a business casual blazer, founder

“Founder-led selling is the whole engine.”

We help turn founder instinct into a repeatable growth engine.

East Asian man in smart casual, founder

“We do not know which growth bets deserve the next 90 days.”

We create a 12-month roadmap and a 90-day operating cadence so the team knows what to test, what to stop, and what actually deserves investment.

Black man with glasses in a casual tee, founder

“Our product is stronger than our story.”

We translate what you built into customer language, a sharper market position, and a story that gives buyers a reason to act now.

Latina woman in a business casual blouse, founder

“We need to raise, but the deck is not landing.”

We build the investor narrative alongside the GTM plan, so the deck reflects an operating business rather than a collection of slides.

White man in a beanie with visible tattoos, founder

“We are acquiring customers, but delivery is messy.”

We help design the customer journey and operating layer that let growth increase without breaking delivery or founder bandwidth.

Black woman in a professional blazer, founder

“Content gets attention but does not create pipeline.”

We turn your expertise into a point of view, conversion path, nurture sequence, and sales follow-up system.

Middle Eastern man with a beard in a casual hoodie, founder

“AI is a promise, not an operating advantage yet.”

We identify the highest-value use cases, design the agentic operating layer, and connect it to revenue rather than chasing tools.

South Asian man with glasses in smart casual, founder

“We are growing without a brand people want to join.”

We build the brand system, proof, and customer experience that make your company easier to believe in and easier to buy from.

Brand and Growth Accelerator for your mission-driven business

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For Mission-Driven Founders and Ambitious Talent

Building the future
can be a lonely business.

At Trybe, we show up for the founders, the builders, the visionaries, the mavericks, and the relentless. At Trybe, we show up for you.

Full strategy for free - watch it, use it, keep it.

Here’s the whole playbook.
Free. No gate. No catch.

The humanizing brand strategy and the agentic AI growth engine behind $38.8M raised and 368% growth, explained end to end in under 13 minutes.

We Don’t Just Advise.We Build Together.

Full Stack Agentic AISystems Built For You

Lead Gen &Go-To-Market Systems

Automations &Sales Systems

Talent Acquisition &Retention Systems

Why This Is Different

Programs teach.
Partners build.

Most growth programs hand you a playbook and wish you luck. We actually walk with you through the dark valleys and slay dragons together.

The old way

  • Advice from the sidelines.
  • A 12-week cohort, then goodbye.
  • Equity taken no matter what happens.
  • The same playbook for every business.
  • You execute alone in isolation.

The Trybe way

  • Operators, experts, and mentors embedded in your business.
  • Strategy to execution to exponential growth.
  • Skin in the game: on the Early-Stage Startup plan, our upside grows with your attributable revenue.
  • AI systems custom built for your business.
  • You are never alone again.

We believe that building the future should not be a lonely business, because your hero’s journey is worthy of good company. A special ops network backs you in agentic AI operations, non-dilutive funding, content flywheels and non-salesy sales strategy.

Built by entrepreneurs & operators who have been there & done that

0% Hyper Growth
Rate
0M+ Funding
Raised
0% Talent Marketing
Growth Rate
8 to 0 Recruitment Sprint
in 2.5 Years
0M+ Funding, ARR &
Lifetime Value
0x Average Deal
Growth Velocity

The Trybe Ecosystem

One ladder.
No ceiling.

We believe in what you are building, no matter which stage your business is at. We’ve got a way to serve you.

Free

Mentorship Community

  • Live Q&A
  • Hot seat speed coaching
  • The front door to our community
  • Find your self, find your trybe
Join Waitlist
USD$29/mo Usually USD$99. Beta price, locked for life.

The Trybe Community

  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Guest mentors & experts in the room
  • Tactical courses that get you hired & funded
  • Wins celebrated. Roadblocks rumbled together.
  • A trybe that sees you and backs you
Join Waitlist
USD$499/mo Usually USD$999. Beta price, locked for life.

Talent Promotion Track Mastermind

  • Everything in the Trybe Community, plus:
  • Command the room with executive confidence
  • Your next promotion, mapped & engineered
  • Leadership mindset training to stand out
  • High performance coaching that gets results
Join Waitlist
USD$999/mo Usually USD$1,999. Beta price, locked for life.

Founders United Mastermind

  • Everything in the Trybe Community, plus:
  • Acquisition playbooks that fill pipelines
  • The capital room: funding strategy that works
  • Attract high-performers that drive results
  • Learn from other founders’ success stories
Join Waitlist
Step 1. Required first

The USD$10,000 Kickstarter Needs Analysis

One time, paid upfront, delivered inside six weeks. It produces three things: the operational needs analysis, your 12-month roadmap to $1M, and the systems foundation.

Every engagement starts with the needs analysis. I do not take on a business I have not looked inside.

It is a prerequisite, not an option. No accelerator engagement starts without it.

Step 2, choose how you want to pay.
Pay less upfront and share more upside, or pay more upfront and share less.

70% Off

Early-Stage Startup

List rate USD$25,000/mo

USD$7,500/mo

You save USD$17,500 every month

+ 20% revenue share, uncapped

Lowest cash out, highest shared upside. Our upside grows with your attributable revenue.

High-Growth Scaleup

USD$30,000/mo

+ 10% revenue share

The full growth engine and the team that runs it, at a flat monthly fee with half the share of the Early-Stage Startup plan. This is where most founders past $1M a year come in, at full price. You pay more upfront and keep more of the upside.

Hyper-Growth Unicorn

USD$40,000/mo

+ 5% revenue share

The whole engine, the whole team, one monthly number, and the smallest share on the ladder: 5% of attributable revenue.

Applications only. We onboard three to five founders every two quarters, so every founder gets the depth of attention this level of building demands.

The Early-Stage Startup Rate & Founder Effort Disclaimer: The Early-Stage Startup rate discounts our list price for founders who are fully committed to exponential growth, and in exchange we require absolute dedication. We provide the systems, the growth architecture and the execution, and you remain the visionary leading the ship. This program is not for you if you want a passive magic pill or expect to outsource your leadership. Please leave these limited spots for founders who are truly committed. Attributable revenue means gross revenue you collect through the funnels, campaigns, offers and systems Trybe builds or operates, less refunds and chargebacks.

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The 12 Month Journey

Here is exactly
how the year runs.

No mystery, no discovery call required to find out. The gate, then four phases, in the order that compounds.

The gate

The USD$10,000 Kickstarter Needs Analysis

One time, paid upfront, delivered inside six weeks. It is a prerequisite, not an option.

Every engagement starts with the needs analysis. I do not take on a business I have not looked inside.

It produces three artefacts: the operational needs analysis, the 12 month roadmap, and the systems foundation.

Looking inside a business: diagnosis and needs analysis around a work table 01

Look Inside

Weeks 1 to 6

  • Operational needs analysis of offers, pricing, funnel, list health, tooling, and where revenue leaks.
  • The 12 month roadmap, built with you and anchored on the one launch date that matters most to your buyer.
  • The systems foundation, live on your existing stack.

Trybe does: the needs analysis, the roadmap, CRM structure, tagging and attribution, community structure, one consolidated checkout carrying every payment option, a payment rail review, and the monthly reporting pack.

You do: give platform access, attend working sessions, and decide within three business days on anything flagged as blocking.

Milestone: you hold a needs analysis, a roadmap and a working systems foundation. One page tells you what the business made last month across every rail.

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Plug The Leaks

Months 2 to 4

  • Nothing new gets built until what already exists is turned on.
  • The live thing becomes on demand, and capture goes in front of it.
  • Back-end nurture switches on for the long tail.

“Your very first move costs you nothing new: plug the leaks. Pre-record the workshop, build the quiz, turn on the follow-up. That alone lifts your revenue before a single new woman enters your world.”

Trybe does: clips, packages, writes, builds and automates.

You do: film and appear. We script, you perform.

Milestone: revenue moves without a single new lead.

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Build The Engine

Months 4 to 8

  • The ladder gets built, so every level of buyer has a rung.
  • A recurring tier is modelled, and launched only if you can deliver it.
  • The high ticket offer moves behind an application.
  • The anchor launch ships, built on what phase 2 proved.

Milestone: a recurring revenue line exists where there was none, and the anchor launch has shipped.

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Scale And Fund

Months 8 to 12

  • Paid amplification runs only behind proven organic winners.
  • The corporate, sponsorship and group placement channel opens.
  • Licensing or certification productizes what you know.
  • Non-dilutive funding advisory runs alongside, with grant and program identification and application support.

You do: approve every budget in writing before any spend.

Milestone: $1M run rate, and graduation into the $10M Founders Mastermind.

The order matters. Building recurring revenue and the scale layer before your funnel is warm would waste the viral momentum you already have, so we build in the order that compounds.

Trybe is an operator and partner, not just an advisor. As a founder you stay in your growth zone. We don’t just hand you a plan. We build the growth engine for you and with you.

Who This Is For

For founders trying to make
a positive impact in this world.

For mission driven founders doing $10K to $100K a month, with actual product market fit. Doesn’t matter if you are bootstrapped, pre seed, seed, Series A or Series B plus. Apply to find out if you are the right fit.

A founder whose business is already working and ready to scale

Only apply if

  • You are a mission-driven, founder-led, high growth startup or business.
  • You are doing $10K to $100K a month, with product market fit.
  • You are bootstrapped, pre seed or seed. Past $1M a year you enter at High-Growth Scaleup or Hyper-Growth Unicorn.
  • You have a starter team of 2-10 people.
  • You are focused on attracting high performance top talent that fit your company vision, values & growth plan.
  • You are planning to attract the right investors in a funding round, or looking for non-dilutive funding options.
  • As a founder you aspire to be a visionary leader that creates a company & culture people love working for.
Early stage: learning in community, welcome and belonging

Join the Trybe community first when

  • You are still at the idea stage. There is no funnel to plug and nothing to analyse.
  • Demand is unproven.
  • You want a course, not a partnership.
  • You aspire to become an entrepreneur.
  • You want to test the idea in front of real people before you build the machine.
  • You are hiring your first one or two people and want to get it right.
  • You want the rooms, the mentors and the momentum while you find your proof.

Every rung of the ladder lifts you toward this one. Start where you are, and we’ll be here.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Past $1M a year, you are not too late. You come in at High-Growth Scaleup or Hyper-Growth Unicorn level. This is where the game gets really exciting: $1M to $10M.

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Brand & ContentGrowth Engine

Your story working around the clock to promote you while you build the business. Podcast clips, articles, and campaigns produced & deployed for you.

Humanizing The BrandTo 10X Growth

We deploy Google’s 7-11-4 strategy to build authentic brand trust that attracts top tier clients, investors and talent that are the right fit for your mission and values. Work with people that love you for who you are and become raving fans of your mission.

Inside The Accelerator

We become
your co-pilot.

One kickoff and one 12-month roadmap. Eight special ops plug & play systems deploy exactly where your growth needs them.

01

Brand & Positioning

Your brand rebuilt to attract demand and talent. Led by a fractional Chief Brand & Growth Officer.

02

Lead Generation

Systems that fill your pipeline with trusted leads. Not more noise, more believers.

03

Go-To-Market

Offer architecture, pricing, and launch strategy. Built for your buyers, not for theory.

04

Content Engine

Podcasts, clips, and articles produced for you. Seven hours of trust, working while you sleep.

05

AI & Agentic Systems

A super agent commanding department agents across marketing, sales, retention, and reporting.

06

Non-Dilutive & VC Funding

Grants and government funding so you grow without giving up equity. The money is there, and we know where.

07

Talent & Culture

Hire the right people with a 9-element culture framework. Scale your team, scale your business.

08

Mindset & Leadership

Coaching for the founder carrying it all. The business grows at the speed of the leader.

Mastermind Retreat + $10M Roadmap

Hit $1M and you graduate: the 50 Founders Mastermind Retreat, the investor room, and your roadmap from $1M to $10M. The ladder never ends.

Invite-only event.

Unlock new possibilities in paradise

Only 50 seats available for founders who qualify. This ensures meaningful connections and personalized attention.

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Free $25K Bonus 01

50 Founders
Mastermind Retreat.

Get ready to transform your million-dollar company into an 8-figure empire while being pampered and having fun while you dance till your socks fall off. The $1M to $10M Brand & Growth Accelerator starts with a luxurious 3-day strategy, growth roadmap, networking sprints and fun mix and mingle after-hours socials in paradise.

Retail USD$25,000 Accelerator members: FREE

Three days of all-inclusive luxury, in Mexico.

Founders at your stage do not stall from lack of tactics, they stall alone. Three days at one table fixes what no Zoom call can.

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

An elite gathering of visionary founders

Network with top investors

Network with top tier investors and funding partners to learn what they are really looking for to fund your business.

Build Dream Teams Strategy

Master the art of building and leading high performance dream teams that are built for exponential growth and scale.

Network of excellence

Connect with just 50 hand selected founders who share your drive for growth and massive impact in the world.

7-8 figure transformation

Transform your business trajectory through strategic mastermind sessions and leave with a proven 8-figure growth roadmap.

Expand network & networth

Opportunities to expand your network and your networth as you mingle with industry titans and other founders.

Learn from industry legends

Keynotes and live Q&A with industry legends who’ve scaled their startups into massive empires.

Your Story

Every quarter we produce and capture your story: where you were, what the challenges were, and how you found your breakthrough. It is a podcast about your hero’s journey.

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The podcast is
your hero’s journey.

Your growth story is produced and broadcast while it happens. The podcast, and you featured at events, tell the world what you’re building.

Q

Every Quarter

A fully produced podcast episode capturing your hero’s journey: where you were, what the challenges were, and how you found your breakthrough. We broadcast it to the world.

½

Every 6 Months

A one-day live event with every Trybe community member in the room. You, on stage, in a fully produced podcast, telling your story and your hero’s journey in front of founders, talent, and investors.

Every Episode

We clip every episode into YouTube videos, Shorts, long-form, blog and SEO articles, then share them across our channels. You get the complete content flywheel packet to distribute on yours.

Trybe Courageous Conversations Podcast. Uncovering the hero's journey of incredible leaders, mentors and experts
The Trybe podcast studio set, two people in conversation at the microphones The Trybe podcast studio, wide view of the loft set

Shot in the Trybe studio. Produced end to end for you.

$5,000 of production value per virtual episode.

$15,000 for the on-stage edition.

$30,000+of value. Free.Included in the $1M in 12 Months Brand & Growth Accelerator

Everything You Get

Adding up all
the bonuses. Honestly.

The bonuses outrun the Kickstarter before the program even starts. Here’s what you’re really getting on top of your core Brand & Growth Accelerator:

$1 Million in 12 Months Brand & Growth Accelerator: full system strategy, execution, and optimization.Core
The 50 Founders Mastermind Retreat, Mexico: all-inclusive luxury trip, mastermind, social mixers, and dance parties.$25,000
4x Hero’s Journey episodes: full content production, distribution, and optimization.$30,000+
Full access to the $999/mo Founders United Mastermind: connect with founders all year, every virtual and in-person event included.$11,988
Celebration and graduation at $1M + automatic entry to the $1M to $10M Founders Mastermind group and network access.Invitation only
Bonus value for free included in year 1$67,000+

We Show Up For You

Operators.
Not observers.

A vetted network of specialists, experts, and mentors who plug into your business like it is their own. We are like the Avengers of entrepreneurship!

Chief Brand & Growth Architect

$38.8M raised in 2.5 years, as Chief Brand and Growth Leader at the Canadian Marketing Association. Featured in Business Insider and TechCrunch.

AI Operations & Systems

Built a 200-person, $1M operation from zero, running it across two continents. Repeatable, human-centric, scalable systems are the specialty here.

Non-Dilutive Funding & Grants

Twelve years inside government funding programs. Knows every grant, every program, every angle, and exactly how to position your business to win them.

Sales Systems & Training

100+ sales agents trained across industries. Builds your closing team from scratch, trains them on non-salesy selling, and hands them to you.

Events & Experiences

World-class retreats, masterminds, and fully produced experiences that turn clients into raving fans and rooms into lifelong relationships.

Your Seat

You stay the founder, in control of your company and your vision. We catch each other’s blind spots and win together, and that is the whole point.

About Me

Who I am,
and how I lead.

The Vision

I envision a world where leaders transform workplaces into thriving communities.

The leaders of these modern tribes are founders and business owners. The members are the people who work in these spaces, connected by a shared purpose and mission to make a positive impact.

The word “Trybe” (pronounced as tribe /triːb/) has a powerful message hidden inside it:

“Try & be”

  • Try & be a kind leader.
  • Try & be a good human being.
  • Try & be a better version of yourself.

We are creating an ecosystem that connects high performers with each other. It doesn’t matter if you are talent or a founder. We can all be in one community and grow together.

100 books on company culture and leadership

Our values. How we lead.

A warm one-on-one conversation, seeing the person first 01

See The Person First

We are all human beings first, and that is the baseline. Before we develop strategies or solve problems, we consider how our words and actions affect everyone.

A coaching circle supporting one person through the rumble 02

Support The Rumble

Everybody is responsible for supporting each other in the process of going through things together. We embody creativity and innovation when we trust each other to collaborate passionately.

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Make It Actionable

I produce resources that educate and empower leaders to take actions with long-term, tangible impact. The quality of my work is determined by how simple it is to implement those strategies.

My Origin Story of Becoming a Leader

How surviving a toxic culture shaped me into a better leader.

Endorsements

Testimonials about Sheldon
as a leader.

Who coaches and mentors his team members to unlock high performance.

Wanna get to know me better
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Steve Mast

Former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Marketing Association

“Sheldon is the perfect example of a modern marketer. He's an extraordinary storyteller, he's got great business sense, he's a solid leader and is fantastic from the technology perspective.”

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LinkedIn testimonials for Sheldon as a marketing leader

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Case Studies & Track Record of Success

Architecting
exponential growth.

Why these global brands trusted me
368% growth rate and 400% talent growth rate
Series A $13.8M
Growing teams
Series B $25M
Growing teams 75+
CMA NXT and RBC Strategy Magazine
CMA Chartered Marketer Program

Deep Dive Video Library

Portfolio &
examples of work.

People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. The full library sits on its own page.

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it

See the full video library

Speed Coaching

Coaching videos
to unlock your mind.

Short unlocks on networking, feedback, teams and mindset. They live on their own page.

Try speed coaching for instant unlocks

Watch the speed coaching videos

Questions

Asked and
answered.

What happens in the first 30 days?

An operational needs analysis of your whole business, then your 12-month roadmap to $1M, built together. The first systems go live in the first quarter.

What does 20% revenue share actually mean?

20% of attributable revenue on the Early-Stage Startup plan. High-Growth Scaleup carries 10% and Hyper-Growth Unicorn carries 5%. It is never equity, and you keep your company. You own what we build together: the brand, the funnels and the growth engine are yours.

Why does every tier carry a revenue share?

Because the fee and the share move in opposite directions, on purpose. Pay less upfront and share more: 20% at USD$7,500 a month. Pay more upfront and share less: 10% at $30,000, and the smallest share, 5%, at $40,000.

Do you take equity?

No. We only discuss equity in the $1M to $10M growth phase.

What happens when I hit $1M?

You graduate into the $10M Founders Mastermind, the 3-day retreat and the investor room. The next level of the success and fulfillment ladder unlocks.

Why only three to five founders per intake?

Because embedded execution is real work, and every founder deserves the depth of attention this level of building demands. Three to five is the honest number.

What is the 50 Founders Mastermind Retreat?

A multi-day, in-person event designed to help startups bridge the 7-figure to 8-figure growth gap. Set in a tropical resort, you’ll join other founders in a transformative journey to learn from serial tech entrepreneurs, investors and growth experts.

How long is the retreat?

Three days of sessions, networking, and all-inclusive resort fun. Elevate your understanding of startup growth and enjoy the sea breeze, all in one place.

Who is the retreat for?

Startup founders and co-founders growing from 7 figures to 8 figures, which takes new strategies, partnerships, team growth and investment. Accelerator members attend free when they graduate.

What will I learn at the retreat?

How serial entrepreneurs grow revenue through the startup journey, and the mindset shifts that matter for founders. You also get an inside perspective from investors.

A Brand & Growth Accelerator for Mission-Driven Founders

We Believe InWhat You’re Building

Let’s build your million-dollar mission together.

We believe in
what you are building

You are the future and we are betting on you, because we show up for the founders, the entrepreneurs, the visionaries, the mavericks and the relentless. We show up for you!

If you qualify, you get 3 free bonuses:

  • Free - The 50 Founders Mastermind Retreat, Mexico. $25,000
  • Free - 4 Hero’s Journey podcast episodes, produced & distributed. $30,000+
  • Free - A full year in the Founders United Mastermind. $11,988