Build with us — 25madison Welcomes Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Martin Aguinis

By: Steven Price and Grant Silow

In April 2021, 25madison welcomed Martin Aguinis on board as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. 25madison has been building startups since 2018, and we have several models: In many cases, we’ve started with a white space, built an MVP, and then partnered with a Founding CEO to launch the company. In other cases, we’ve co-founded early-stage companies. Here, we’ll back a phenomenal entrepreneur who has an idea for a company, which we work together to test, validate and build.

Martin is a serial entrepreneur. He started multiple companies during college and has not stopped post-graduation. Martin got his formal marketing training in Google’s product marketing org, where he helped grow developer tool Flutter from 0 to 2 million users. He’s a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree and is currently between years of his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In his free time of MBA Year 1, Martin built a video communication software company backed by Pear VC and sold the business to Tata in March of this year.

Martin approached 25madison after learning of our venture studio model from a 25madison intern and peer in Stanford’s MBA program. We discussed the myriad ways our team could help validate the concept (from user interviews to demand…