$480 / month
4 calls per month (45min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
Hi, I'm Chris — a serial founder and product executive with 20 years in Silicon Valley. Over that stretch, the platforms and products I've led have generated more than $1.1 billion in cumulative commercial value, and I've managed cross-functional teams of up to 160 people across the US, Europe, India, and China.
I work best with founders who've raised their seed or Series A and are now facing the hardest stretch: turning early traction into a repeatable, scalable business. You've shipped something people want. Now you need to land enterprise customers, hire your first real GTM team, and write a Series A or B narrative that holds up to partner-level scrutiny — without losing the magic that got you here.
I've been in the rooms where those decisions got made, and I've made plenty of the mistakes you're about to face. At Elevance Health, I unified 30+ scattered AI projects into a single platform that delivered $500M in strategic savings. At SAP, I sketched an IoT platform on a whiteboard, secured $30M in internal funding for it, and grew it into a ~$250M/year business landing deals with Coca-Cola, Unilever, P&G, and Genentech. At Cognizant, I turned a struggling innovation practice from $300K to $60M ARR in under two years by reinventing its business model.
I mentor and advise at Stanford GSB, Alchemist, Techstars, and Plug and Play because I genuinely love this stage of the journey — the chaos, the doubt, the breakthroughs.
I can help you with:
Moving from early traction to repeatable, scalable revenue
Landing and expanding enterprise customers (procurement, security reviews, multi-stakeholder sales)
Sharpening pricing and packaging for real adoption, not just signups
Building the right GTM motion and hiring your first VP Sales or Head of Product
Crafting a Series A or B narrative that actually closes the round
Navigating the technical, compliance, and operational decisions that become deal-blockers at enterprise scale
Book an intro call and let's clear your blockers out of the way.
5 out of 5 stars
I worked with Chris for over a year as I made my transition out of a full time role into working on my startup full time. Coming in as non-technical, first-time founder, Chris was an absolute wealth of knowledge. He helped me better understand the healthcare, health tech and raising landscape. I initially had a pretty set product vision but made pivots from our work together that have been well received by prospective users and investors. Highly recommend working with Chris if you are looking to raise, better understand healthcare (users, customers, payers) and health tech (high level compliance, best practices, product direction) and raising (pitch deck and pitch).
Lite Plan • 1 year
5 out of 5 stars
Christian is a great mentor who takes the time to help me get through the many obstacles that comes with launching a startup. Christian's expertise has been very valuable
Standard Plan • 1 year
5 out of 5 stars
Christian is super knowledgeable about startups. He helped me take an idea I had into a fully validated startup plan. I got valuable resources from him and he really helped guide me and navigate me until I was able to make my idea a product, find my cofounder and now onto my first client! Highly reccomend!
Standard Plan • 3 months
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Mentees who work with a mentor for 3+ months reach their goals 2x faster than those going it alone. Long-term mentorship means fewer false starts, more focused sessions, and support that builds week after week.
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Christian Busch
Helping Seed & Series A founders land enterprise customers and close the next round • Built a $250M ARR SaaS at SAP • Stanford GSB, YC, Alchemist at Mulligan Valley Partners
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We'll meet for a quick call (usually under 30 minutes) where we:
- Break the ice and introduce ourselves
- Discuss your goals and how I can support you
- Coordinate logistics like time zones, meeting frequency, and communication methods
