See everything, meet everyone, and launch your career to new levels as my Chief of Staff
Work side-by-side with me for two years running all aspects of Capital Factory’s operating businesses and investment funds. See everything I see. Meet everyone I meet. Then I’ll help you start your own company, launch your own fund, or find a leadership role at Capital Factory or one of our portfolio companies.
There is no better way to insert yourself into the Austin jetstream, expand your network, and explode your experience!
You are at an inflection point in your life and career. You are an apprentice to the CEO, have full transparency across the company, and manage his internal and external tasks and communication. You are a high potential individual looking to explode your experience and network so that you can start your own company, join Capital Factory or another startup as an executive, or become a venture capitalist investor. He has a separate assistant to handle scheduling and some administrative tasks.
Types of activities you will regularly participate in:
- Attending executive team strategy meetings and taking notes
- Helping team members who need to present to the CEO
- Creating a presentation for the CEO to use at a meeting
- Writing remarks for the CEO to deliver at a large event
- Drafting responses to press questions for the CEO
- Organizing a company meeting or executive offsite
- Traveling overnight to another city for meetings
- Taking on a special project and then handing it off
- Hosting VIP tours with F100 CEO’s and elected officials
- Interviewing potential employees
- Attending meetings on behalf of the CEO
- Daily standup meetings with the CEO
This is a two year commitment. You will start as the Assistant Chief of Staff reporting to the current Chief of Staff. After one year you will take their spot and hire your replacement. After a second year, we will help you launch or find your next opportunity at Capital Factory or elsewhere.
Are you at an inflection point and ready to take your career to the next level?
Are you available regularly for late night working sessions and weekend projects?
Are you ready to make a 2 year commitment and investment in yourself?
Join us.
About Joshua Baer
Joshua Baer helps people quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs. He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.
He has been recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow and Braddock Scholar at the Aspen Institute, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations Young Leaders Forum, an Eisenhower Fellow, and a recipient of the Anti-Defamation League Torch of Liberty.
Josh lives in Austin with his wife Amy and three children.
About Capital Factory
Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas, the number one startup state in the U.S. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers.
Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.
