Praetorian Growth Advisory

Where technology, capital, and geopolitics meet the hard work of building durable companies. Fifteen years in the arena. Salesforce, Rippling, Checkr.

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

Hosting the Palm Beach Tech Season Kickoff on Nov 10 with Related Ross, @awscloud, @ServiceNow, @CitizensBank and more.

For founders, investors, family offices, and the execs and local leaders shaping what’s coming to Palm Beach.

Only 100 spots: https://t.co/Jmx0dB3ARq

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

One of the main reasons Praetorian moved its HQ from NYC to WPB 🚀🌴

[Joseph Russo @JosephRRusso]

"Is West Palm Beach a place to build tech?"

In 2015 I started @TechHubFL to answer that Q, and build the foundations.

Now in 2026, @KTmBoyle & @davidu have brought @a16z here, to invest in American Dynamism.

The largest VC firm in the country, is 1 block from my home. Unreal.

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

Rich Miner built a voice assistant that got real work done in the 1990s, then co-founded Android and put a computer in everyone’s pocket. Thirty years later the hardware finally caught up to the idea.
He is betting on this team to finish it. Fortunate to be working alongside the @agi_inc team.

[AGI, Inc. @the_agi_company]

Co-founder of @Android and @GVteam , is now an advisor to @agi_inc

"Android brought smartphones to the masses, but even with today's AI breakthroughs the out-of-the-box agentic experience can't even call you an Uber," he says.

@richminer co-founded Wildfire in the 90s so you could get work done on your phone by voice.

Thirty years later, assistants have only gotten better at talking. Ours finally does the work for you.

https://t.co/l61LpmOS83

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

Working with vertical AI companies across very different industries, and the same pattern keeps showing up.

The product is better. Demand is real. The edge goes to whoever turns that demand into adoption fastest.

One of our legal AI clients proves it. The tech is sharp and the market wants it, but the real advantage is trust and getting a cautious industry to say yes.

The data agrees. In legal AI, the 10 largest rounds captured roughly 7 of every 10 dollars invested. Money is not chasing better models anymore. It is concentrating around who can actually get adopted.

Horizontal AI raised on what the tech could do. Vertical AI wins on who earns trust and drives adoption.

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

When a buyer says the price is too high, they are rarely talking about price. They are telling you the cost of doing nothing was never made real to them. That is not a pricing problem. That is a discovery problem.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Our expanded thoughts on an institution’s freedom to pursue new opportunities, its economic rights, and its ability to expand them in the age of AI.

Please find attached our white paper, Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI, outlining the 15 steps governments and companies must take to protect both their sovereignty and their alpha.

https://t.co/rZuNeOKXU9

[Praetorian Growth Advisory @PraetorianGA]

For a decade, cheap money made almost anything look like proof a business worked. A round raised. A valuation hit. Capital deployed. Demand you didn't earn. That cover is gone. What's left is the only test that ever mattered: can you get someone to pay you.