ODF
The fellowship for ambitious early-stage founders. I own who comes in and how the pipeline grows - reviewing applications, refining the bar, and reaching the founders worth backing.
GUGLIELMO FONDAADMISSIONS & GROWTHNZERO LABS
I decide which founders get in.
I run admissions and growth for ODF and Solo Founders at nZero Labs - evaluating early-stage founders at scale and building the AI selection systems that make those calls sharper.
WHAT I WORK ON
Two founder programs under nZero Labs. One job: let the right people in.
Solo Founders
The program built for people starting companies on their own. Same remit: find exceptional solo founders, evaluate them well, and bring more of the right ones into the room.
HOW I EVALUATE
Selection is a product. I build it like one.
Read founders, not résumés - signal lives in how someone thinks, decides, and moves.
Turn judgment into systems - AI selection models that evaluate at scale without flattening nuance.
Keep the bar honest - measure the calls, learn from outcomes, raise the standard.
ABOUT
I sit where taste meets infrastructure.
My background runs through SQL and databases - the layer where a system's real shape is decided - and that same instinct for clean, queryable structure is what I now point at founders. Reading people is judgment; doing it consistently, at scale, and improving it over time is engineering. I spend my days in both, thinking about how startup ecosystems actually move people from zero to one.
CONTACT
Building something? Let's talk.
If you're an early-stage founder, or you care about how founder selection should work, I'm an open DM away.