Speaking · keynotes, fireside chats, and workshops

Your audience has heard the theory. Put the operator who lived it on stage.

I speak on what actually moves a company up the mountain, with the stories and the numbers from building and selling five companies worth over $1B.

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Adam JorgensenFounder, Everest Partners
The credibility behind the talk
15 Partner of the Year Awards
won by firms Adam led, Microsoft and Databricks
Chairman, PASS
led the global data community, 300,000+ members
100s of founders
coached through the climb
5 exits, $1B+
companies built, sold, and the value created
The signature keynote

Why Bolting On AI Won't Fix Your Growth Stall.

Why growth stalls at predictable revenue stages, and how the best operators climb past it.

The Wall at Every Altitude: Why Growth Stalls and How to Climb Past It

Your audience walks out able to name the altitude their own company is stuck at and the wall coming next. The playbook that got a firm to $8M becomes the ceiling at $20M, and the one that got it to $20M starts working against it at $50M. I take the room through the five altitudes, the operating-system gap that stalls each one, and the first move that breaks through, carried on the real stories from building and selling five companies and from inside a $300M AI platform.

Built for founder and CEO audiences, PE and VC summits, and data and AI conferences. Delivered as a keynote, a fireside chat, or a working session.

What the room leaves with
  • Their company's altitude, named, and the wall coming next
  • The eight places a firm breaks or breaks through as it scales
  • A first move they can run on Monday, with a number attached
  • The honest read on what to fix first, and what to leave alone for now
More talks, more rooms

Pick the talk that fits your room.

Each one runs as a keynote or a workshop, sized to the audience and the time you've got. Two decades on data and AI stages, and now the rooms where founders and investors decide what to do next.

Founder-Led to Team-Led Sales
The room sees how a founder gets out of every deal without the pipeline falling apart, and the handoff that lets a company sell without the founder in the room.
Leave with: the three roles to hire and the order to hire them in.
Shipping AI to Production
What it takes to get AI past the pilot and into production where it moves a margin number, taught from the build that scaled a $300M Azure AI platform.
Leave with: the go/kill test to run on any AI pilot before it burns a quarter.
Leadership at Altitude
Why the team that got a company here often can't carry the next climb, and how to lead the people through that change without losing them.
Leave with: the three questions that tell you which leaders will scale, and which to move now.
Building and Scaling a Global Delivery Business
How to stand up and scale delivery across onshore, nearshore, and offshore, holding margin and quality as volume climbs, drawn from the operating model behind a 1,200-person team.
Leave with: the three margin levers to pull as headcount grows, and the order to pull them.
Where these talks have played
TechCrunchSQLBits UKPASS Global SummitMicrosoft Global Partner ConferenceMicrosoft Fabric ConferenceAI Summit NY & AtlantaCEO Growth Summit, Miami
From the room

References from past organizers, on request.

Organizers who have booked Adam will take a short call and tell you how the room responded and whether they'd book him again.

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Tell me the audience, the date, the room, and your goals for it. I'll come back with the talk that fits and how I'd tailor it. Keynotes, fireside chats, and working sessions for founder and CEO audiences, PE and VC summits, and data and AI conferences.

Led firms that won 15 Microsoft & Databricks Partner of the Year awardsFormer Chairman, PASSTwo decades on data and AI stages
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