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Check our Startup Success GuideEmerging Humanity is me, Christos Kritikos, an embedded operator for founders and VC portfolio companies. I get inside the company, find what is actually blocking growth, and fix it. Not a deck, not advice from the sidelines. I own the outcome alongside your team.
I start by finding what is actually holding growth back, which is rarely the obvious thing. Then we fix it: the roadmap, the team, the operating rhythm, whatever it takes. Sometimes that is a short diagnostic, sometimes it is months embedded in the product function.
A fractional CPO is a product executive who runs the product function part-time or on a defined scope, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire. Product is the most cross-functional role in an early-stage company, engaging with all the functions that matter. It is the best seat for an operator like myself, because it lets me see, analyze, and coordinate the actions that move a company running below its potential.
Usually with a Startup Diagnostic, a fast assessment that finds the highest-leverage opportunities and what is really holding growth back, so we are not guessing about scope. From there we either fix it together or you take the plan and run. No long proposal cycle.
Post-traction founders who have hit a ceiling and need someone to own the fix, and capital partners (GPs, studios) who need a trusted operator to go into a portfolio company and get it moving. The common thread is execution, not more advice.
I do the work. I will advise when that is what is needed, but the point of an operator is ownership: I am in the room, making decisions, accountable for what ships and what it achieves. The deliverable is a company that is moving, not a document.
Mission-driven ventures where the work matters: health, education, climate, and the markets others overlook. Companies with real traction and a founder worth betting on. I take on a small number at a time because the work is hands-on.
Send a message below or book a discovery call. Tell me where the company is and what is in the way. I will tell you honestly whether I can help and what that would look like. No pitch, no commitment.