Here's the problem,

Companies don't fail for lack of ideas. They fail building the wrong thing with the wrong people.

Each dollar invested in corporate growth today returns 15% less revenue than it did ten years ago.

71% of founders cite their previous job as the primary source of their startup opportunity. Your next business is walking out the door.

And the corporate growth toolkit hasn't changed much in the last century.

Our thesis

Shredded Paper is a consulting and recruiting practice. We advise on product strategy, and we place the people who build it.

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has fallen 33% in fifty years. The companies that endure grow horizontally: a series of adaptive, low-cost value attempts. We call it tree-and-forest.

We use revenue as the KPI and concentrate investment by deselection, a discipline borrowed from venture capital. Creative freedom early. Evidence to proceed.