B2B Software Executive Search
Harvest
ACQUIRED | Bending Spoons
Two designers built the tool they could not find, and then tens of thousands of businesses asked to use it.
Harvest began in 2006 inside a small web design studio in New York, as time tracking and invoicing that its own founders wanted to use. It grew into a platform serving small businesses across the world, profitable and independent, with no outside capital behind it.
the engagement
Harvest came to 33eleven Partners in 2021 through a former client introduction to the founder, which was successful. Harvest returned in 2023 for a second search.
PLACEMENTS
Vice President of Marketing
Vice President of Engineering
PARTNERSHIP INSIGHTS
A profitable, founder-owned company hires on a different axis than a sponsor-backed one.
There is no board timetable, no capital to deploy on a deadline, and no obligation to grow at a rate someone else set. What there is instead is a culture built over fifteen years and a founder who will live with the decision. Executives who have only operated against a sponsor's clock often read that as slow, and misread the bar.
We screen for people who can work without the forcing function of outside capital, because at a company like this the urgency has to come from the person rather than the cap table.
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