Built and backed by Mark
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From Scrappy Founder to Strategic, Backable CEO
A free masterclass with Mark Rampolla — Co-Founder of GroundForce Capital and the founder behind ZICO Coconut Water. The seven internal shifts that take a founder through the stage Mark calls Founder Puberty — the same lens he uses across the table at GroundForce when he's deciding which founders he believes can become backable.
Built and backed by Mark
There's a name for this stage. Mark calls it Founder Puberty — the messy in-between where the business has outgrown the way you built it, but you haven't outgrown who you were when you built it.
You can't skip it. But you can navigate it with a map — and that's the masterclass.
Every founder eventually hits the same wall — the version of you that built the business is no longer the version required to scale it. Mark calls it Founder Puberty. In this masterclass he walks the full map of the seven shifts that take you through it, and goes deep on three. You'll see immediate results — and that's just the beginning.
The shift from denial and avoidance to seeing things — your situation, your company, yourself — exactly as they are. The hardest place every founder has to look into, and the one that unlocks everything that follows, is in the mirror.
The shift from being the Chief Everything Officer to leading from your strengths, your zone of genius. Why "doing more" stops working — and what to do instead.
The shift from unconscious reactions — patterns, defaults, stories — to conscious leadership. Plus a tool you can use anytime to break free and get better results with ease.
A 15-minute weekly practice Mark uses to redirect his calendar away from the work that drains him and toward the work that compounds. Most founders find 5–10 hours a week they didn't know they were losing — and reinvest them into the actions that actually deliver results.
All seven shifts are also in the companion e-book, The Founder-to-CEO Playbook. You'll get the link in your welcome email after you sign up.
Mark Rampolla built ZICO Coconut Water from a van and a crazy idea — sparked during his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central America — into a global brand acquired by Coca-Cola for over $200 million. A 1 in 10,000 outcome in the beverage industry.
Then he did something most people thought was insane: he bought it back. And now he's doing it again, this time building ZICO to $1B+.
After ZICO, Mark co-founded GroundForce Capital, a $600M investment firm, where he's sat across the table from thousands of founders as an institutional investor. He's raised over $1B, created $5B+ in economic value, backed nearly 100 companies, been on 40+ boards, and written two bestselling books — High-Hanging Fruit and An Entrepreneur's Guide to Freedom.
He's been through the founder-to-CEO transition three times himself. He's watched thousands of other founders go through it from the investor's chair. And he keeps seeing the same pattern: brilliant people with incredible businesses stuck in a stage they don't even know they're in.
This is the masterclass version of the advice he wishes he'd had while running ZICO.
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"Backable isn't charisma. It's not confidence. It's not fundraising ability. It's the version of you the business stops depending on for survival."
— Mark Rampolla
Free. On your own time. The seven shifts you can start applying this week. If you're a founder between $5M and $50M — this was built for you.