Steve Barsh

Summary

Steve has decades of success building, investing in, and fostering innovative companies and products that have produced significant commercial impact on their industries and customers while driving strong financial returns for investors. Steve thrives at the intersection of technology, business, and innovation. SUCCESSES ► Founded first startup in college and sold to a Fortune 50 company for 8x revenue ► Led Dreamit Ventures as a Managing Partner delivering top quartile fund results ► Appointed to advisory board for NASA’s annual cross industry innovation conference ► Taught in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton MBA program ► Started a real estate development and hospitality company focused on luxury ski-in/ski-out vacation homes in Park City, Utah ► Conceptualized, wrote, and hosted the Dreamit Dose -- a Youtube series focused on founders and startups organically garnering 20,000 subscribers and nearly 1m views in three years Steve's passion and focus are building and scaling companies. In his leadership roles, he brings a highly sought-after and uncommon combination of deep tech/science understanding, business and financial insight, and the ability to set a long-term vision and achieve that vision by building and driving great, diverse teams. FOCUS AREAS ✅ Focusing, building, aligning, and leading teams to drive success ✅ Ensuring competitive differentiation is strong where customers care most ✅ Refining go-to-market strategy in a smart, focused, aligned-to-win way ✅ Aligning pricing, willingness to pay, sales models, revenue forecasts, and growth ✅ Thinking through smart, goal-oriented, capital-preserving fund raising strategies ✅ Clarifying long term vision with key goals and financing milestones ✅ Refining and pressure testing customer and investor-facing pitch decks