Leadership

Founded and run by two brothers.

Co-owned 50/50, both working as director-employees in the company they run — not just passive shareholders.

No outside board

There's no board to report to and no outside shareholders to manage around. Every call — on a client engagement, on a venture, on hiring — gets made by whoever's actually closest to it, not routed up for sign-off from people who aren't doing the work.

Both hands-on, not one strategy and one operations

Neither founder is purely front-of-house or purely back-office — both work the same client and venture problems day to day. If something we shipped isn't good, we're the ones who built it and hear about it directly, not a layer removed from it.

50/50 ownership means neither founder can unilaterally overrule the other on a direction for the company — disagreements get resolved by actually agreeing, not by one side outvoting the other. That's slower than a single decision-maker structure in the cases where it matters least, and the right trade in the cases where it matters most: the calls that are hard enough to disagree about are usually the ones worth a second person pushing back before they're made.

More on how EBM came together on the About page.

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