Gregory Shepard

Gregory Shepard is The Startup Architect. For over three decades, he has reverse-engineered what makes companies scale and transformed those lessons into structural systems founders can use. He is a Fulbright Scholar, co-founder of the Fulbright Entrepreneurship Initiative, a United Nations speaker, and one of MSN’s Top 10 Visionaries in Entrepreneurship. Greg has founded 13 companies, sold 12, and invested in eight more—four successfully exited.

His anchor exit was AffiliateTraction, the first performance-marketing agency to expand globally. It was acquired by eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions in a $925 million cross-border transaction that earned four M&A Advisor awards, including Private Equity Deal of the Year and Technology Deal of the Year. Greg then served as Chief Strategy Officer of eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions, leading affiliate-marketing industry consolidation. He later sold AdAssured to Pepperjam and served as Chief Technology Officer.

Today, Greg is the founder of StartupScience.io, an Accelerators-as-a-Service platform serving 125,000 founders and 200 startup programs worldwide. He created the Startup Lifecycle and Startup Architecture frameworks through a five-year research initiative involving thousands of founders, investors, accelerators, universities, and advisors.

Greg is the author of The Startup Lifecycle, published by BenBella, with Startup Funding & Capital and Startup Success and Failure forthcoming. A ForbesBooks-published writer and Forbes contributor, he has written more than 100 articles for Forbes, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, U.S. News, the New York Observer, and The DEAL. He hosts Forbes Radio’s Meet the BOSS podcast and has appeared on more than 100 podcasts.

His speaking stages include TEDx, the United Nations, Adobe Summit, the Angel Capital Association, the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers, Columbia University, and UC Berkeley, along with more than 100 accelerators and conferences worldwide.