For Founders
Supporting the people who build.
Ventures only thrive when their founders do. Alongside the companies we build and back, 8750.studio works directly with entrepreneurs: one-on-one coaching, focused intensives, and year-long programs for every stage, from first customer to life after the exit.
Led by a founder who has sat in your seat
Every program is led by Dustin Wells, the founder of 8750.studio. He spent his career building companies and selling them: the first hires, the lean years, the scaling, the exits, and the strange quiet that comes after.
He is known for culture: his companies earned best place to work awards, because he treats how a company feels as strategy. Today he works with founders on clarity, calm, and capacity, in the business and in their lives. His guiding idea: summit the mountain you're on before you decide what's next.
- More than 25 years building companies and growing people, with two successful exits
- Former President & CEO of Headspring
- Past President of Entrepreneurs' Organization Austin and TeXchange
- Angel investor and startup CEO mentor at Capital Factory
- Austin Rockstar Entrepreneur of the Year; KPMG Executive Leadership Award
- Companies recognized with best place to work awards year after year
1:1 founder coaching
For founders running a growing company who want a steady partner in the work. Engagements run in terms, so you commit to a season at a time, and the coaching covers both the person and the business, because in a founder's life they are never separate.
Weekly 1:1 sessions
Alternating weeks: one on you (mindset, steadiness, personal practice), the next on the business (strategy, people, the hard decisions).
Founders Forum
A small monthly circle of founders who tell each other the truth about their companies and their lives.
An advisory board
For founders ready for one: help finding the right advisors and running a board that actually makes you better.
Between sessions
Access by text and email when something can't wait for the next call.
Intensives
One or two full days, built around the one thing in your way. You bring the problem that's limiting you: a decision you keep circling, a pattern that keeps repeating, a ceiling the business keeps hitting.
We work on it start to finish, in person, until it moves. What often takes months or years to work through gets resolved in days, and you go back to the company clearer and lighter.
Each intensive is designed around the founder: for one person, with a leadership team, or as part of a coaching engagement.
Programs
Structured programs for every stage of the founder's road.
Two-day 1:1 intensive · Founders and leaders facing one specific block
The Breakthrough
A private two-day intensive for founders and leaders. Nine to fourteen hours of focused one-on-one work on the one thing standing between you and what you want.
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Twelve-month 1:1 program · Founders after an exit
What's Next
A twelve-month, one-on-one program for post-exit founders who want their next chapter chosen with intention, not filled by default.
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Twelve-month mastermind · Founders and leaders actively building
Ignite
A year-long mastermind for founders and leaders in the middle of the build who want to scale with clarity, purpose, and their wellbeing intact.
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Twelve-month growth program · Early-stage founders
Launchpad
A twelve-month growth program and mastermind for full-time founders under $250K in revenue who are serious about scaling and about their impact.
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Start with a conversation. We'll listen to where you are and tell you honestly what would help, even if it isn't us.
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