Newco Startup Founder

About this role

WHY WE EXIST

At Repeat Builders, we believe more ventures can succeed with the right system. Too often, great ideas collapse under lost momentum, flawed teams, or misaligned incentives. The world doesn’t need more startups; it needs more that succeed - repeatedly and reliably.

That’s why we exist: to engineer venture success right from zero.

We begin with research-driven ideation, validating opportunities with rigour before a founder steps in. We recruit purpose-built founding teams, not accidental ones. We embed ourselves with capital, serial expertise, execution playbooks, governance, and systems that remove friction - so founders can move at speed with clarity and momentum. Working side by side in the heart of the community, founders, builders, and investors align around realised outcomes.

For us, outcomes must be tangible, compounding, and accessible.

We’re here to change how ventures are born and the zero-to-one stage is our natural arena. We give investors a credible, repeatable path to early-stage returns. And we create a blueprint others may follow, but few will match.

This is venture building done differently.
This is the factory of realised outcomes.
This is where venture success is engineered right from zero.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Repeat Builders starts with ideas. But ideas alone do not create outcomes.

Our system is designed to take opportunities from identification and validation through to execution. By the time a venture is greenlit, the idea has been researched, pressure-tested, and funded to move.

What happens next determines the outcome.

This role exists at that transition point - where a validated opportunity becomes a real company.

Most founder roles begin with an idea. This one begins after validation.

The question is no longer “what should we build?”
It becomes “who will take ownership of building it?”

You are not expected to originate the idea.
You are expected to take full ownership of turning it into a functioning business.

Once you step in, this is no longer “Repeat Builders’ idea”.
It becomes your company to build.

You may step into the CEO role, or join as part of the founding team, depending on the capabilities required. Regardless of title, the expectation is the same: ownership, accountability, and execution.

We expect you to adopt this as your own and pursue it with intensity, care, and full responsibility for the outcome.

WHAT YOU’RE JOINING

You are not starting from a blank page.

Each venture begins with:

- a researched and validated opportunity

- a clear timing hypothesis

- initial product and market direction

- A$3m committed early-stage capital

- access to shared infrastructure, playbooks, and support

The starting point is designed.
The outcome is not.

THE ROLE

We use the term founder deliberately.

Not as a title, but as a responsibility.

You are not starting from zero.

You are responsible for turning a validated opportunity into a functioning company.

This means:

- taking ownership of direction and execution

- making decisions with incomplete information

- building the product, team, and operating rhythm from the ground up

- adapting quickly as real-world feedback replaces assumptions

You are not operating in isolation.

But you are accountable for outcomes.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

You will take a validated starting point and turn it into early traction.

This begins with setting direction.

You will define high-level business milestones - what needs to be true for the company to progress from early execution to a position of real traction. These milestones will guide prioritisation, sequencing, and decision-making.

You will define how the company operates from day one.

This includes setting the initial culture, standards, and ways of working - shaping how decisions are made, how the team collaborates, and what good execution looks like. Early choices here persist, so clarity and consistency matter.

You will build the company across product, team, and traction.

This includes developing and iterating the initial product, engaging directly with the market, and forming a small, capable team that can execute together. Progress will come from continuous interaction with customers and rapid feedback loops.

The work is not linear.

Some assumptions will prove wrong. Direction will need to adjust. In some cases, this will require meaningful change.

Adaptation is expected - but it is driven by evidence, not instinct.

Progress is measured by traction, not activity.

HOW WE WORK TOGETHER

Repeat Builders is embedded from day one.

We work alongside you in the early stages - not as advisors, but as active participants in building the company. This includes support across product, hiring, strategy, and execution.

In practice, this often feels like co-piloting.

We operate as a silent co-founder - bringing context, experience, and support into the company, without diluting your ownership of decisions and outcomes.

We bring our system into the company from the outset.

This includes structured ways of working, decision frameworks, governance, and execution playbooks. The objective is not to add process, but to remove avoidable friction and improve how decisions are made.

This structure is most pronounced early on.

In the initial stages, we are more involved to help establish direction, operating rhythm, and pace of execution. As the company matures, this involvement reduces — with the expectation that the company develops its own capability and ways of operating.

We sit together.

Founders work alongside the Repeat Builders team at Tech Central, in the heart of the startup ecosystem. This proximity is deliberate. It allows for faster feedback, tighter collaboration, and better decisions in real time.

We consider this an unfair advantage.

You are responsible for driving execution.

Day-to-day decisions, momentum, and progress sit with you. You are expected to lead from the front -…