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I’m Bill. CEO, investor, and someone who believes the things we learn are worth sharing.
Real lessons from a life of building businesses.
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Bill · @builtontimeCEO / Investor / Stanford education
Perspective from experiencePractical lessons, freely sharedFor the next generation
Meet Bill
A working life.
A perspective to share.
Bill is a CEO, investor, husband and dad. His experience spans leading companies, working through difficult periods and supporting people building businesses of their own.
Here, that experience becomes something you can use: a question to ask, a lesson to consider or a different way to look at the decision in front of you.
Get to know BillChapters of experience
Leading. Rebuilding.
Backing people.
Bill’s introduction brings together company leadership, difficult periods and investing in people’s ambitions. These are the experiences behind the perspective he shares.
01 / Leading businesses
Decisions with people behind them.
Working across businesses and markets brings recurring questions about people, cash, risk and where to focus next.
02 / Working through difficulty
Find the next useful step.
Crises and rebuilding are part of Bill’s account. His lesson on setbacks starts with understanding the facts and taking responsibility for the response.
03 / Backing people
Pay attention to follow-through.
When Bill shares his experience of supporting business owners, he looks at how they put advice into practice and keep moving the work forward.
Adapted from Bill’s introduction, his lesson on setbacks and his account of backing people.
The reason behind BuiltOnTime
Good experience
shouldn’t stop
with one person.
I’ve led companies, worked through difficult decisions and backed people building something of their own.
BuiltOnTime is how I pass those lessons on. To help you see things more clearly, ask better questions and take your next step with a little more perspective.
The mission01 / Share
Make knowledge accessible.
Useful lessons from real business decisions, available when you need them.
02 / Support
Help people move forward.
Perspective and encouragement for the questions that come with building.
03 / Back
Believe in what comes next.
Support the ambition, curiosity and action of the next generation.
From the notebook
Lessons for the
decisions ahead.
Start with a lesson on business, priorities or putting advice into action. Each article offers a practical idea and links back to the original source.
People behind the businesses
A different perspective.
A real story.
One founder’s account of cash pressure, people and difficult choices. Useful changes along the way, and an honest account of what they couldn’t resolve.
23-year-old founder · Software Development Agency
What Bill helped me see.
Cash, people, pricing and the things a young agency founder wishes he’d understood earlier.
A personal account. Name withheld.
Read the storyStart with your question
What are you working through?
Something has gone wrong. What now?
Separate the facts from assumptions before deciding how to respond.
Explore the lessonCould I improve my supplier terms?
Find out what evidence would support a better arrangement.
Explore the lessonHow do I make time for what matters?
Look at whether your day reflects the priorities you say matter.
Explore the lessonA little perspective goes a long way
You don’t have to figure
it all out alone.
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