We wrote the book.
Mach49 founder and CEO Linda Yates empowers large companies to beat startups at their own game by building a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures to drive meaningful growth. You’ll master a teachable,repeatable, scalable method focused 100% on execution across the spectrum of venture creation from Ideate to Incubate, Accelerate, and Scale.
You’ll discover how to manage the Mothership and seize the Mothership advantage to ensure your ventures reach escape velocity and thrive. And you’ll learn how to build a venture factory that will fuel your company’s growth for years to come.
The next unicorn doesn’t have to come from Silicon Valley. Regardless of your company’s industry, geography, or history,the next unicorn can come from you.
This book will show you how.

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The Blueprint: Building Your Company’s Future of Innovation and Growth
The webinar offered practical insights for businesses aiming for venture-driven growth in today's challenging environment. It emphasized the need for transformative change and how established companies can leverage their inherent resources to spur innovation and growth. Highlighting strategies to utilize the "Mothership Advantage," the session was particularly beneficial for CEOs, CHROs, and innovation leaders seeking to navigate their organizations toward disruptive growth. This essential guide aimed to empower companies to unlock their potential and thrive amidst uncertainties.
The Mach49 Growth Institute
The Growth Institute teaches the next generation of company leaders how to find new pathways to growth. We offer tried-and-true methods for venture building and venture investing through hands-on application to your company's growth initiatives.
Build a growth ecosystem across your organization.
We provide a customized, experiential, action-oriented professional development curriculum offering a wide variety of highly engaging skill-building sessions. Leverage our extensive catalog of execution-oriented skill-building sessions designed to build your capability to drive growth, solve hard problems, and foster deep engagement with teammates, stakeholders and customers.
Attract, retain and nurture growth-minded talent.
Your wider organization will learn the keys to sustainable entrepreneurship, investing, new venture advocacy, and reinvention of customer relationships.
On all professional development engagements, we take pride in training multidisciplinary teams from diverse backgrounds and corporate functions.
/ Masterclasses
Our catalog of execution-oriented Masterclasses is designed to build growth capabilities, solve hard problems, and foster deep engagement with teammates, stakeholders, and customers. Mach49 Masterclasses equip senior leaders to attract, retain, and nurture growth-minded talent and train sustainable entrepreneurship, investing, and new venture advocacy.
/ Growth Fellows
The nine-month Growth Fellows program combines Masterclasses, individual coaching, and our Shift AI platform to provide a comprehensive learning opportunity for your future leaders. Individuals work both independently and in teams, exploring our unique methodologies and applying that knowledge to long-term projects or new ventures that address a real problem or opportunity.
/ Disruptours
Get a glimpse of the future in this deep immersion of Silicon Valley. Participants network with a unique and curated group of best-in-class global enterprises, startups, VC firms, and visionaries that shape what’s possible.
/ Transform a team, department, or function
In this versatile series, you’ll learn how to apply Mach49 venture building methods to existing projects, products, innovation programs, and/or other transformation activities. Through expert facilitation,
Shift AI, short Masterclasses, and periodic reviews, we’ll guide your growth initiatives based on your time, schedule, and goals.
/ Build Your Internal Growth University
Learn how to build and evolve enduring programs that support growth across all aspects of your organization by building a Growth University. We start by working with leadership to define the needs and goals of the organization and then “train the trainers" in how to create and deliver courses that produce a growth-minded workforce capable of impacting broader company objectives. We work with you hand-in-hand to build a pilot program and ensure you have the skills to continue developing your University on your own for years to come.
Perspectives
Turning ideas into thriving businesses takes new, fresh perspectives. Here we offer a few. From people who have been building and investing in ventures for decades, corporate innovation teams that are just getting started, and your potential customers. Some perspectives shared are unusual, most are provocative, all will get you thinking about venture-driven growth.