by Scott Gelbard | Sep 1, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Scott Gelbard
There is a story I return to often when working with clients who are caught in the grip of a difficult decision. It involves a CEO I advised about eight years ago — a sharp, driven operator who had built a mid-sized manufacturing business from scratch. He had received...
by sgelbard | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Entrepreneurs, Family Office, Men, Motivation, Scott Gelbard, Success
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures Every generation of business leaders inherits a version of the world shaped by the one before it. The tools change, the markets shift, the vocabulary evolves — but the underlying challenge...
by sgelbard | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Entrepreneurs, Family Office, Men, Motivation, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures When a cross-border partnership unravels, the post-mortem usually lands on one of two explanations: strategic misalignment or cultural differences. Both are real factors. But in my...
by sgelbard | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Entrepreneurs, Family Office, Men, Motivation, Scott Gelbard
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures I’ve sat across the table from a lot of leaders in crisis mode. And almost every time, somewhere in the first conversation, I hear a version of the same sentence: “We should...
by sgelbard | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Entrepreneurs, Family Office, Men, Motivation, Scott Gelbard, Success
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures There is a prevailing narrative in business culture — particularly in the technology and startup world — that equates youth with innovation, speed with intelligence, and disruption with...
by sgelbard | Jul 20, 2026 | Blog, Entrepreneurs, Family Office, Men, Motivation, Scott Gelbard, Success
Scott Gelbard, Founder — SGI Global Partners / Managing Partner — Peak Ventures We celebrate growth. We celebrate the companies that doubled revenue in a year, the founders who built from zero to fifty employees in eighteen months, the executives who opened three new...
