Mike Molinet 👷‍♂️

Co-Founder

Redwood City, California, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

Co-founded multiple successful startups.
Expert in scaling SaaS businesses to over $100M ARR.
Strong background in product development and business strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in product development and business scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipProduct DevelopmentBusiness StrategyLeadership

Other Skills

Business DevelopmentConsumer ProductsEngineeringHR ManagementManagementMobile App DevelopmentNew Business DevelopmentProduct DesignProject ManagementPublic SpeakingRevenue ManagementStrategic PlanningStrategyWood

About

A few principles and learnings from my time in tech: 1. Hard work and intelligence help, but you also need good luck. 2. Companies start and die, but the people you work with matter most and those relationships last longer than most companies. 3. The more experience I gain, the less I realize I know. 4. Try to find a good blend of confidence, humility, knowledge, and naivety. Too much of one will hinder you. 5. Just keep going. I've succeeded, I've failed, I've gotten lucky and unluck, and I've embarrassed myself plenty of times - but all that matters is you keep going. Founder of a couple companies. Building lots with AI. And trying to help others along the builder and founder journey.

Experience

The builder weekly

Co-Host

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Weekly newsletter for those building apps or tools: https://thebuilderweekly.com/

Something new

Building something new

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Tcp

Limited Partner

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Gtmfund

Limited Partner

Apr 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Early-stage fund focused on investing in B2B SaaS startups. Our investor network consists of GTM executives who've seen zero to IPO. We're here to help exceptional founders with great products successfully scale their go-to-market and grow revenue.

Branch

2 roles

Co-Founder

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

Co-Founder, COO & President

Jun 2014 – Feb 2023 · 8 yrs 8 mos

As President / COO, I built all the Revenue and G&A functions from the ground up - taking the business from 0 past $100M ARR.
Throughout the journey, I ran:
GTM / Revenue functions for the SaaS platform (CRO)
Product for the SaaS platform
HR & Recruiting
Finance / Accounting (CFO)
Legal
Security
IT & Workplace
We started Branch to solve mobile linking and measurement for the millions of apps out there. We suffered from the fragmentation in mobile trying to scale our own app in 2013, and thought "If we're suffering from this, so is everyone else." That was the catalyst to pivot to Branch.
Since then, we've been lucky to have grown very fast - now powering linking and measurement for 100,000 apps, including some of the world's biggest brands like Spotify, Adobe, and more.

Project ManagementLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Strategy

Thena

Co-Founder

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Palo Alto, California, United States

The customer engagement platform for modern B2B companies working in Slack and Teams.
Learn more at Thena.ai

EntrepreneurshipProduct Development

Lily ai

Advisor

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

Enrich

Executive Member

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

Kindred prints

Co-Founder

Jun 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Palo Alto, CA

Mobile app and SDK for making printed photobooks and photo prints from your phone. Turned out in 2013 people didn't want to print photos any more since everything was already digital. But we uncovered some challenges in mobile that led to Branch's founding.

Minnesota network of young entrepreneurs

Founder

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs

Founder of networking and education group for young entrepreneurs in Minnesota with a mission to connect like-minded, ambitious business owners in order to grow their network and increase their chances of successful business development. Currently home to over 4,000 Minnesota entrepreneurs and small business owners. www.theNYE.org & www.meetup.com/theMnE

Strong pointe management llc

Owner

Jan 2008 – Sep 2012 · 4 yrs 8 mos · St Paul, MN

Bought some residential real estate in the Twin Cities with friends, renovated them, and leased them out. Learned a lot of handyman skills, but plunged more toilets than any human should ever have to in one lifetime.

3m

Product Development Engineer

Jun 2007 – Aug 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Before moving to CA, I spent 5 years in product development for 3M, where I played around in a lab while trying to start businesses on the side. Got some patents, built some cool stuff, and managed to keep all my fingers.