Family equity is what you build when you do not sell to private equity.
1,000+ owner & next gen resources
My brother and I. Today 7 of our family members work in our family business, which has run 7 operating assets for 19 years.
Everything on this site is free. No membership, no paywall, no email required to read anything. I would rather have the relationship.
I am not a broker. I am not a bank. I am not a private equity fund with a clock. I do not list your company. I do not run an auction. I do not bill by the hour.
My family business for the last 19 years has been Family Office Club. For 26 years before that, I watched my father raise $1B for cancer hospitals and universities.
Today I hold equity in family businesses, connect family businesses to each other and to family offices, and help new family offices get started. I also help owners apply Hyperintelligent AI, build next gen grooming programs and put scaling strategies in place.
I built this website because most of the family business industry still runs on websites that look like 1992. Half of it is gated behind a paywall, very little of it is generous, much of it is badly outdated, and almost none of it is connected to the family office world.
I also believe in meeting in person and being part of a community, and there are very few true family business and family office communities to choose from. So we built this to be the most in-depth, helpful site there is: templates, tools, case studies, fireside chats, stories, mini-series, in-person events, and practical guidance on how to sell, transition, grow, refinance, formalize and pass on your business, and navigate the family business and family office world.
I am happy to act as your sherpa or co-adventurer along the way.
What are you actually dealing with right now?
Private equity has a fund, a clock, and LPs it has to answer to. Family equity has a family. Same capital, completely different intentions.
Owners who have already done it, on the record.
We run 16 in-person events a year, 4 Super Summits and 12 masterminds, in NYC, Fort Lauderdale, Dallas, Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. It is like Netflix for in-person investor events, except you are in the room. 300 of them over 19 years.
- A second-generation dental products company, founded by a father and son, raising growth capital.
- A 40-year consumer finance company where a family member stepped in after a death in the family.
- A family-owned executive search firm, founded by one generation, now run by the next.
- A second-generation steel fabricator weighing what comes next.
- Family offices deploying capital into family-held operating companies.
I started Family Office Club 19 years ago at 26, as my 12th startup and the first one that worked. All three of my daughters are in the business with me now. My father raised $1 billion for non-profits before I ever started, so I grew up watching this.
Since then: 340 events, 1,500 investors on stage, 250+ family offices created or formalized, 46 transactions off my own balance sheet, and CIO of a $180M single family office. I am a first generation founder grooming my own next generation, which is the same thing most of you are doing.
That is why this site exists and why all of it is free.
"The Family Office Club is unique as a community. The thing I admire about you is that you started with your family, making that a priority."
So what are you weighing right now? Tell me the situation and I will tell you who you should be talking to.
Tell me your situation