Adam Guild

I’m feeling blessed to share: Owner raised $120M Series C and is now at a $1B valuation 🦄 Mom-and-pop restaurant owners are being crushed by huge corporations. We’re using this cash to arm them to fight back. • This round was co-led by 2 perfect partners for us: Alex Kurland from Meritech, who led DoorDash’s Series B, and Shalini Rao from Headline, who led Toast’s Series C. They were also joined by an inspiring group of new investors: Fidji Simo (CEO Instacart), Jonathan Neman (CEO Sweetgreen), Garrett Langley (CEO Flock Safety). & still more inspiring new investors... Dharmesh Shah (CTO HubSpot), Josh Reeves (CEO Gusto), Shaan Puri (MFM), Matteo Franceschetti (CEO Eight Sleep), Anthony Pompliano, Sahil Bloom, Christina Cacioppo (CEO Vanta), Brett Schulman (CEO Cava), Matt Maloney (Founder & CEO GrubHub). … just to name a few. :) • Today, technology is being weaponized against small business owners. Corporations like Domino’s dominate. Why? Because they spend billions on tech, engineers, and marketers. • Small business owners are forced to compete with corporations that have massive war chests. But with Owner, they can do more than compete. They can win. We’re building the platform that gives them the power. We serve the people who serve our communities. • I started Owner 7 years ago, after dropping out of high school halfway through 10th grade. The first version of Owner wasn’t built for venture capital. It was built for my mom. She’s a small business owner who just needed a shot at success in the digital world. • I remember watching her worry that we’d lose her business and our house. In a moment of desperation, she asked her weird :) nerdy 17-year-old son to help her. I built a solution for her. That was Owner V1. When it started to work, I saw my mom transform. She went from being constantly stressed about money to feeling hopeful and excited about her future. The Owner team has now seen that same transformation happen for thousands of small business owners like her. That’s what drives us. • You can think of Owner as Shopify for restaurants—and, eventually, all local business owners. It gives them everything they need to succeed in the online future, in one place. Owner is their website, online ordering, mobile app, CRM. It all works together as one system. • Owner is also continuously optimized with what we learn from the thousands of restaurants and the more than 57 million consumers who have used our platform. It’s the only system designed for one outcome: growing sales profitably. It gives independent owners enough firepower to take on the big corporations, and win. • Shoutout to the great team at @Owner — You deserve the credit for getting us here. I thank God every morning that I get to build Owner with each of you. We wouldn’t be here without you. We have a special team. Each of you represents greatness. • And shoutout to the best cofounder and CTO I could ever ask for, @DeanBloembergen. His work ethic and genius are as impressive as his character. I view partnering with Dean as one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. • I’m proud of Owner today. But I also feel scared that people will see our unicorn valuation and think “we’ve made it.” So let me be brutally clear. We HAVE NOT made it. And if we start to believe we have, we never will. When investors value us at $1B, it’s because they see potential. Our investors see the POTENTIAL for us to build a company worth tens of billions. We have to prove them right. And we must also prove right the thousands of restaurant owners who’ve bet their futures on us. • We’re still underdogs. We still have a long way to go. We didn’t come this far just to come this far. It’s time to move faster, build better, and fight harder! We have millions of small business owners counting on us.

@jasonlk Yup! For folks who want to learn more about building at Owner, see our culture deck here: owner.com/culture-deck

@adamguild If you want to be on the cutting edge of AI for SMBs, go build at Owner

If you're a technical founder or product-driven team and haven't found PMF, Owner is open to acquihires. We’re growing extremely fast, have dozens of former founders across our team, and have so much still to build. Ping me to discuss!

@erica_wenger love to hear it! seems like it would be a game-changer for them. to go from no website to great website creates a big sales lift 🚀

@adamguild insane!!! i’m going to show them next time i go!

Introducing Grader: the world's first AI CMO for restaurants. It’s helped us drive over $1 BILLION in sales for our customers. Grader outperforms human marketing teams. See how:

@erica_wenger lol this one was HARD MODE! but the transformation Grader just generated in 5 minutes is WILD from what they had before! see here:

@adamguild what about Blackstone? best hole-in-the-wall biz run by two brothers and their dad!! they remember everyone’s names and the food is best in the WV. they don’t have a website at all just an IG page

@matt_haf thank you Matt! what’s the name of your favorite mom and pop restaurant? I wanna show you the AI transformation that’s possible now :)

@adamguild Congrats man!! So good!!

@nemoismyson thank you Marlin! what’s the name of your pizzeria? would love to show you the transformation that’s possible now with Grader. it gets better every day! (I’ll reply back here after running it for a few minutes)

@adamguild Saw the preview at pizza expo! Definitely slick

@breakfastbybill You, more than anyone, are responsible for this magic for small business owners, Will! Thank you for all of your extremely hard work, dedication, and focus in making it happen! 🙌 So exciting to think about the millions of small business owners it’s going to help 🚀

Grader is the most rewarding product I’ve ever worked on. I get goosebumps showing restaurant owners their report and giving them the CMO they’ve never had before. We’ve burned trillions of tokens to give small business owners the superpowers to fight back, for the first time. Owner is the best place to change lives with AI. Join us.

@justingordon212 now you've gotta show them next time you're there :)

@adamguild Dude this is so sick!

@Saxtonlife thank you jacob!

@adamguild Good work 👍

@gregisenberg now you've gotta show the owner next time you're there :)

@adamguild Ha, this is sick

@justingordon212 check out this epic before/after! :)

@adamguild Benny’s Tacos in Culver City

@__mikareyes thank you mika! most restaurant owners are overwhelmed by managing their restaurant online because there’s so many people and tools telling them different things on what matters most for sales, very few of which actually solve their problems for them

Ok this is pretty cool. Tech people will scroll past and go "psh, I can ask claude code to audit my website so easily." Restaurant owners are not in claude all day and don't have access or know-how to all these tools. Looks so useful for restaurants everywhere!

@dennismiloseski we're getting quite a bit of site traffic atm - what restaurant are you trying to make a report for, ill pull it and make you a video here :)

@adamguild My parents could have used this years ago. Awesome use of vertical agents. BTW, your phone no. verification step is stuck. Could be overloaded.

@ShraddhaShips check out grader.owner.com and you can put in any restaurant to try it out for yourself!

@adamguild Could you please share the link for this product?

Well said! Small business owners are very hard to build agents for, and very worth it. The impact they can have on small business owners is profound. When the agents work for small business owners, the reaction is not "thanks, this helped us be more efficient". It's often "this saved my business", "this is helping me succeed beyond my wildest dreams". Agents represent the first time in history that small business owners can operate with the scale advantages that big corporations have through their huge teams. We're very proud and grateful to have you as an investor!

The hardest AI agents are AI for SMBs. No FDEs, customers have no budgets. @owner has cracked the code with $1B+ in sales for thousands and thousands of restaurants One of the fastest growing I've ever invested in, and even more importantly ... accelerating AI Agents for SMB is the next wave #proudinvestor

@aditiitwt thank you! :)

@adamguild That's super cool adam, congrats 🎉

@vanshdevx appreciate it vansh :)

Shoutout to the team building Grader. Turning marketing into a system, not just effort , and already seeing serious results. $1B+ in sales is a strong signal.

@iBobbyShell check out this WILD transformation that Grader just did for the restaurant you commented - in MINUTES:

@adamguild Let’s do Choice City in Fort Collins colorado

@buyinglower thank you ben!

@adamguild This is awesome man! Love the vision and initiative. All the best.

@MichaelLevin appreciate it michael :)

@adamguild great work, congrats on the launch!