Thomas Schulz

About

I'm working on Wayne, a self-improving customer acquisition system for startups. Our goal is to build the most efficient dealmaking machine on Earth. We want to do for B2B sales what Meta Ads did for consumer advertising: give every startup the power to reach the right buyers at the right moment and turn that into a predictable + repeatable stream of revenue.

I previously ran Solaris, a 1,000+ person startup campus in the heart of San Francisco. We coordinated founders, engineers, and researchers to live and work within a few blocks of each other. Those companies are now worth well over $10B and backed by notable players like OpenAI, Sequoia, A16Z, YC, and many others.

Feel free to shoot me an email or message on X. I always get back to thoughtful people.

What I'm working on now

Wayne - A self-improving customer acquisition system for startups.

Older work

Solaris - A startup campus that was in Hayes Valley, SF. Coordinated 1,000+ people to live in a square mile. Opened a 5k and a 20k sqft office building. Startups like Exa, Proximal, Vapi, Modal Labs, Browserbase, E2B, Cal AI, Friend, and Endex were started/based here. Solaris companies are now worth over $10B.

DirectorySF - The #1 place to find housing for founders in San Francisco. Still operating and active. If you know someone looking for a place to stay, refer them here.

Gotham Eye - Open crime maps of New York City and San Francisco.

BFF - The first personal agent that existed in iMessage. Got to 10k users in our first week. Launched December 2022.

Together Casa - Coliving marketplace and tool kit. We helped start 15 coliving houses in 2021. A standout one was Edyfi, led by Benjamin Laufer and Luke Piette, which got acquired by Contrary. The marketplace is no longer operating.

Fast - Yes, the one-click checkout company. I was the founding product designer. I also did the brand that everyone is familiar with.