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Build the business. Keep the life.

Told I'd never go to college. Built anyway. Now I build the systems that let founders step back.

Head of Strategy & Technology at YEC. Founder of Pinnacle Ethos. Licensed attorney.

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Drew GolubHead of Strategy & Technology, YEC

Told I couldn't

did it anyway

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1-They said: You're never going to college.
1+What happened: Went back at 27. Latin honors, Ohio State.
2+What happened: JD, Capital. Licensed attorney.
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3-They said: Dropped out.
4+What happened: Toured as DJ G Live. Then finished what I started.
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5-They said: I'm too much of the business.
6+What happened: Now I build systems that run without the founder.

What I build

for founder-led companies

01 / operations

Inventory and ops hubs

One place for stock, pricing, orders, and the team, instead of five spreadsheets and your memory.

02 / commerce

Stores that sell

Shopify storefronts wired into the systems behind them, so the site and the warehouse agree.

03 / intelligence

Internal AI

Search and assistants trained on your own documents, running on infrastructure you control.

Running today

All the work →

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A Saab Forever

A Saab parts business. I built the storefront and the systems behind it.

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ops hublive

Denali Liquidation Group

An internal operations hub, built and owned by Pinnacle Ethos, that runs the day-to-day.

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white-label platformlive

Pinnacle Ops

The operations platform I rebuild for each client, so every company gets a hub that fits.

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self-hosted AIlive

YEC

As Head of Strategy & Technology, I run a self-hosted AI stack for a community of founders.

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The changelog

v1.0init
Third-generation automotive family. A car guy from the start.
v2.0fork
Dropped out of college. Toured as DJ G Live. Event production, no plan B.
v3.0breaking
Back to school at 27. Latin honors, then a JD. Told I couldn't. Did it anyway.
v4.0refactor
Chose to build instead of practice. Pinnacle Ethos, then YEC.
v4.2current
Building systems that run without the founder. Including me. Freedom over control.

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“You start the businesses to support the life that you want to live. You're not supposed to be living in the business.”
what I tell every founder, including me