Building disruptive growth opportunities at startup speed.
X1 is a group of Silicon Valley and corporate boardroom veterans and AI evangelists solving the Global 1000's biggest challenges, one client at a time.
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The problem
Industries are being disrupted.
50 years ago, the average tenure on the S&P 500 was 75 years. Today it is under 15 — and declining.
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15years
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Today
Traditionally, VCs and startups have dominated disruptive innovation.
Venture capital wins by volume. It runs a wide funnel, accepts that most bets fail, and lets a few pay for everything. This is a game corporates cannot play.
2,000companies on the radar
200in due diligence
20invested in
2drive the return
There's no rule in physics that says large companies cannot build successful new businesses.
They have the talent, ideas, brand, resources, capital, technology, channels, and customers.
This is our reason to exist.
This is why we spent the last decade distilling the Silicon Valley methodologies that actually work in a corporate setting.