Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth

15+ companies. $200M+.
Founder-led shops stall because owner keeps the yes.
$5M+ I install the system. Under that I teach you to.

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

Most “growth problems” are the owner refusing to let go of the yes.

They hire help. They get slower. Every exception still hits their phone. They buy a title and call it ops.

Headcount is not a system. It’s a coping mechanism with a salary.

After $5M I design and implement the system.
Under $5M I teach the founder to design it.

If you disappeared for 10 days, what breaks unless you’re in the thread?

Don’t say everything. Name the function.

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@KyleMau It really does, lots of learning and bruised egos 😂

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@shawngorham @realestatedude0 Back when I had a brokerage I would offer the buyers agent more and encourage my agents to do the same. More incentive.

Eventually most of them would head off the buyer BS instead of forwarding it to me

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@SahilBloom And some are for service, giving back after you're successful

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

Revenue is a vanity metric if the owner still has to show up.

$500k with no employees can be a business.

$3M with 14-hour days and no take-home is a job you assigned yourself.

The test is 30 days away.

If sales stall, decisions pile up, and cash gets tight the week you leave, you are still the system.

Staff does not fix that. A new CRM does not fix that.

Who is allowed to decide when you are not in the thread — that fixes it.

DM me DESIGN if you want that mapped

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@amishha0606 This role dies if you keep the veto. Don't hire a messenger. Ops needs to be the voice of reason and accountability

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@jordan_low30175 Cashflow problems are usually an ops leak with a finance costume. Check that loop before you rent a title.

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@solarpunkfutur3 @huebound You didn’t fail hiring. You probably hired helpers and kept the yes.

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@TheJeffPutnam 😂 this is so true... And I'm a COO. But I function like this: meeting could have been an email, this email could have been a message, and the message probably didn't need to get sent

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

You didn’t hire an operator.

You hired a messenger and kept the yes.

Headcount is not a system.

It’s a coping mechanism with a salary

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@realcolegordon 100% agree and I'm a fractional COO. I usually don't even consider a company under 5M.

I do have other options for them however, mainly teaching them how to hire and manage efficiently until they can get to 5M+. Design, margins, inputs

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@acq_official I did that. Now I work part time for only a few clients a year. It's how I give back. I believe successful people have a noblesse oblige for service later in life

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@shawngorham But I'm not really a coach. Fractional COO is closer

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@shawngorham I charge more than that

But 30 years of experience, millions of dollars in profit, and a track record of dozens of companies rescued...I feel good about it

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@bloggersarvesh tool won’t save you if you’re still the department

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@justindmaxwell If it dies when you sleep, you don’t have a company. You have a job with payroll

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@Codie_Sanchez “Get out of their way” while every decision still hits you. You didn’t hire a team. You hired witnesses

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@MG_Dev56 @Codie_Sanchez You don’t have systems. You have staff waiting for you to decide. That’s still Level 1 with helpers

[Martin Toomey Founder-Led Growth @Toomey1313]

@FintechLaw_AI @Joot_Founder You didn’t fail at tech. You refused to stop being the service. Until the owner is removable, nothing scales.