— Insight Innovation & Growth

More innovation. Faster growth. Real alignment.

We partner with CEOs of $1MM to $100MM revenue companies who want to drive more innovation, accelerate growth, and create true organizational alignment. Led by an 11-time startup founder, two-time venture studio founder, and five-time Fortune 500 executive, we bring real-world experience building and scaling businesses.

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11 Startups founded — 8 profitable
1,460× Return on invested capital
$2B+ Enterprise value created
20+ Years building & scaling companies
01 — Capability areas

Where we go to work with you.

Growth Strategy & Execution

Organizational Alignment & OKRs

Product Management & Product-Market Fit

Marketing & Sales Leadership

New Product & New Venture Creation

Fundraising & Investor Management

Fractional Executive Leadership

David Linhardt, founder of InsightStudios.
david linhardt · founder & ceo
02 — About David Linhardt

Founder, operator, and business builder.

David is a founder, operator, and business builder with over 20 years of experience creating successful technology companies and driving growth at both startups and large corporations.

His superpower is finding product-market fit and building profitable businesses from scratch. He has founded 11 companies, 8 of which became profitable, and created two venture studios. These businesses have generated a 1,460x return on invested capital. He has also held senior leadership roles at Amazon, Experian, Yesmail, AT&T Wireless, and Procter & Gamble, where he created over $2 billion in enterprise value.

David specializes in helping CEOs of $1MM to $100MM companies achieve better organizational alignment, accelerate growth, and drive innovation. Whether through consulting, interim leadership, or fractional roles, he brings hands-on experience across product, marketing, sales, new venture creation, software development, and investor relations.

03 — Key companies founded

A track record built one company at a time.

  1. 01

    Maverick Direct Marketing

    2003 – 2018 · Startup studio.

  2. 02

    Acquisition Science (A16E)

    2005 · Consumer data platform.

  3. 03

    e360Insight

    AI-centric affiliate email marketing platform.

  4. 04

    BargainDepot

    Vertically integrated e-commerce business.

  5. 05

    LegitLead

    Lead scoring SaaS platform.

  6. 06

    InsightStudios

    2021 – Present · Current venture studio.

  7. 07

    ComeWith

    2021 · IRL social platform.

  8. 08

    Joyride

    Rideshare innovation platform.

  9. 09

    FounderDojo

    Startup school for entrepreneurs.

04 — Fortune 500 Experience

Experience across five Fortune 500 companies.

  1. 01

    Amazon

    Head of Product & Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

  2. 02

    Yesmail

    General Manager & Senior Vice President.

  3. 03

    Experian

    Vice President, Marketing & Strategy.

  4. 04

    AT&T Wireless

    Director, Marketing & Product.

  5. 05

    Procter & Gamble

    Product Development Engineer.

05 — Case study

Our method, in action.

AT&T Wireless · Wireless

How 48 hours with customers created a $1.5B business in 90 days.

A "proven" launch playbook flopped in three days. Direct customer conversations produced the insight behind AT&T Digital One Rate — and reset the entire wireless industry.

$1.5B Market-cap increase in three months
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Yesmail · Email marketing

Tripling a company's value in 18 months.

A publicly traded email company was losing $5MM a year. A shift to a data-first strategy and three new products turned it profitable — and led to a sale to InfoUSA, with no new capital.

Valuation increase, no new capital
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Experian · Information services

From a -15% decline to +12% growth in under 10 months.

Experian's $57MM TEC division was shrinking every year. A customer-centric growth strategy reversed the decline — and turned it into a growth engine for the company.

+12% Top-line growth, reversed from -15%
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e360Insight · Email marketing

AI email personalization that lifted performance 400%.

In the "spray and pray" era of email, we built ML models that predicted response and conversion across a 100MM+ database — enabling purely performance-based campaigns. Profitable in three months, then acquired.

+400% Performance efficiency
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BargainDepot · E-commerce

From zero to $5MM, profitable from month one.

Mining our 200MM-record email database for buyer signals, we launched a targeted discount e-commerce business and scaled it to $5MM+ — profitable every month, then sold to a strategic buyer.

$5MM Revenue, profitable from month one
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Acquisition Science (A16E) · Consumer data

A data asset turned into 240 months of profit.

We turned the behavioral data inside our own businesses into a product — building one of the largest suppliers of consumer omnichannel data, profitable for 20 straight years.

240 Consecutive months of profitability
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