Co-Founder Local services / Craftsmen

ThirtyEight Capital is a venture-building and investment platform focused on building scalable, profitable businesses in large, fragmented industries.
Rather than investing passively, we partner with exceptional operators and entrepreneurs from the very beginning — helping them validate ideas, shape business models and build companies from zero to one.
Our focus is not on building “growth-at-all-costs” startups.
We believe the best businesses are built with strong fundamentals from day one:

operational excellence
and an early path to profitability

We particularly focus on sectors where execution matters more than hype:

Local services
Healthcare & consumer services
Vertical software & operations

Most of the industries we target are highly fragmented, operationally inefficient and underserved from a customer experience perspective — creating opportunities to build strong, durable businesses with long-term value creation.
We are not looking for employees.We are looking for future founders who want to build real companies with real ownership.
Tasks
We are looking for entrepreneurial individuals interested in building companies in the local services space together with ThirtyEight Capital.
This is not a traditional operating role with predefined responsibilities.
The goal is to jointly identify, validate and potentially build scalable and profitable businesses in highly fragmented service industries.
Potential areas of focus include:

SHK / HVAC
Electrical services
Building services
Home modernization & infrastructure
Skilled trades
Service businesses around energy, maintenance and renovation

We believe these markets offer massive opportunities:

highly fragmented supplier structures
low digitalization
weak customer experience
operational inefficiencies
and increasing long-term demand

You might already:

work inside the industry
operate a small business
understand operational pain points
or have identified opportunities to modernize how these businesses are built and scaled

Together, we would:

explore market opportunities
validate business models
develop operational conceptsbuild first customer traction
and potentially launch a venture together

Our focus is on building operationally strong businesses with:

efficient customer acquisition
scalable systems
strong branding
and an early path to profitability

We believe many of the best companies of the next decade will be built in “unsexy” industries where execution matters more than hype.
Requirements
We care less about perfect resumes and more about entrepreneurial drive, ownership mentality and strong execution capabilities.
Relevant backgrounds could include:

Skilled trades / local services
Operations-heavy industries
Construction or building-related businesses
Sales or commercial roles
Entrepreneurship or startup experienceService operations management

What matters most:

willingness to build from zero
bias for action
operational thinking
resilience
strong commercial instinct
curiosity and ownership mentality

We are especially interested in people who:

already have ideas for improving the industry
have identified inefficiencies or customer pain points
or want to rethink how modern service businesses should operate and scale

Benefits
What we offer:

Direct collaboration with experienced founders and operators
Access to capital from day one
Operational and strategic support during the build phase
Access to network, infrastructure and growth expertise
Joint ideation and company building
High ownership and entrepreneurial responsibility
Pertinent long-term founder role with meaningful equity participation

Our approach is focused on building real businesses with strong fundamentals and sustainable economics — not “growth at all costs”.
If you are interested in building modern local service businesses and believe there are better ways to operate and scale these industries, we would love to hear from you.
You do not need a polished pitch deck or finished business plan. A short introduction, your background and any ideas or observations about the industry are enough to start the conversation.
The process will initially focus on shared exploration and idea validation — with the potential to evolve into a long-term founder partnership.
#J-18808-Ljbffr