Joshua Thacker
Builder. Capital Allocator. Former SaaS Executive.
I spent 15 years building go-to-market systems for companies like Salesforce and PagerDuty. In August 2025, I walked away to reallocate time from salary to autonomous assets. Not a leap of faith. An allocation decision.
Now I build with AI, acquire cash-flowing assets, and document the entire process. Married with two young kids. 50 countries explored. Based in Sacramento, CA.
The Arc
Ranch. Military. Corporate. Builder.
Early Years
200-Acre Exotic Animal Ranch, Texas
Raised in rural Texas. Learned self-reliance early.
Military
U.S. Air Force
Joined to leave rural Texas. Developed structured thinking, operational discipline, and funded an undergraduate education.
2011
MBA, UT Austin (McCombs)
Sharpened the analytical foundation. Transitioned from military to tech.
2011 – 2014
Deloitte Consulting
Bay Area tech clients. Three years building the consulting toolkit. Strategy, operations, revenue architecture.
2014 – 2018
Salesforce
Rose to senior role. Learned how world-class go-to-market machines operate at scale.
2018 – 2019
Leanplum (Startup)
SVP Business Operations. The startup bet — learned a lot, gave up earning years. Key lesson: early career, startups are for learning. Earning phase with a family — stick with public companies.
2019 – 2023
PagerDuty
VP Strategy & Operations. Four strong years at a public SaaS company. High comp in stock, shaved annually into assets.
2023 – 2025
Mews (European Hotel SaaS)
SVP Business Operations, effectively COO. 85-person team. Weeks in Europe, 3:30 AM PT start times. The role that accelerated the exit.
August 2025
Left Corporate
Walked away. 45% of living expenses covered by asset cash flow. Deadline: 100% by December 2026.
2025 – Present
Building
SearcherOS (SaaS). OpenClaw (AI agents). Real estate acquisitions. Business acquisition search. Documenting the process.
Right Now
What I'm doing today.
Building SearcherOS into a scaled SaaS product. Running AI agents through OpenClaw to handle go-to-market and operations. Actively searching for a business to acquire. Managing a real estate portfolio of direct-owned and syndicated assets.
Target: 100% of living expenses covered by asset cash flow by December 2026. Currently at 70%. Every allocation decision has real tradeoffs.
The whole point of the portfolio is to spend afternoons with the kids. Everything ladders back to that.