Celebrating 20 years of positive system change.

The Next Us

Create positive system change

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We work with venture capital firms on the intersection between internal operations and external perception. We have worked directly with leadership at some of the most prominent investment firms in the world, on their most sensitive issues: org structure and operational model, LP and founder differentiation, investment thesis articulation, long-term strategic planning, team offsites, and AI-augmented cross-functional workflows.

Our extensive startup work means we spend every day inside the ecosystems that VC firms invest in. We understand how high-growth companies actually operate—their tools, their pace, their organizational growing pains—because we build those operations for a living. Venture capital invests in the future, yet its organizational habits often mirror traditional finance more than the adaptive, iterative behavior of the companies it funds. We bridge that gap.

Clients: Omidyar Network, Pace Capital, and additional firms under NDA

“Mark is brilliant — on so many levels. He brings a deep understanding of the landscape and forces driving the many segments across the technology industry, as well as the nonprofit and government sectors, making him a strategic partner with a broad set of reference points. The project he led for me became a collaboration that transformed the strategy of the organization I represented and foretold broader movements in the industry. The work we did together continues to be a defining moment of my career.”

Wendy Conway Head of Marketing, Omidyar Network

Case Study

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Over the course of 2021 and 2022, The Next Us worked with one of the largest and best-known investment firms in the world on a series of inter-related efforts, including vision, strategic planning, positioning and messaging, and values.