Preston 🩳 Rutherford

Odeko is building an enterprise-grade software platform for small businesses to realize their own unique visions for the world.

In aerospace, nothing launches without verification. Drata applies that same mission-grade discipline to business trust—so it’s always ready before the moment of launch.

Cents is a leading business management platform that helps laundry business operators grow, manage, and understand their business. With easy-to-use tools for point-of-sale, on-machine payments, revenue tracking, point-of-sale, and delivery services, Cents provides an all-in-one solution for managing the complexities of a laundry business. Designed with the unique needs of laundromats, dry cleaners, and multi-family/residential businesses in mind, Cents is the premier solution for entrepreneurs in the garment care industry. At the heart of Cents is a commitment to the industrys success, continually driving laundry businesses forward through ever-improving product solutions and strong community support.

Were a leading B2B technology and services company driving the next evolution of inventory monetization for apparel and beyond. By offering rental subscription services alongside traditional business models, we are helping brands meet the needs of today’s consumers who want more flexibility in how they experience and enjoy fashion while also driving their own bottom lines.

cofounded and helped grow Chubbies from zero to > $100M exit. now, taking all those learnings (from mistakes made), and co-founded Marathon Engine, the fractional marketing org for consumer brands > $20M/yr who are dealing with increasing customer acquisition costs, and looking to re-accelerate new customer growth PROFITABLY. our differentiators: - founded by exited operators: founded by exited brand operators. were not agency people. were real partners, and you treat us like actual members of your team - proven brand + performance paid media growth playbook: we actually figured out how to invest in Brand AND Performance, and have proven, with our own brands, AND with our Marathon Engine customers, that we drive materially higher new customer acquisition growth AND contribution margin and/or contribution dollar growth (based on our customers goals) than traditional performance agencies were able to achieve. investing in brand is the single most impactful thing that can help a brand go from stagnating growth, more discounts and DR dependent to re-accelerated growth, less reliant on promotions or the ad platforms. - handle all marketing functions: were not just paid media. we handle demand planning, growth modeling, forecasting, CRO, AB testing, Web merchandising, creative strategy (paid + organic), creative analytics, creative production (our unique take), retention strategy and analytics, and the analytics functions. - unique data set - we built marathon data, which is the only platform to quantify the return from brand investments in a way the CFO will buy into. having that data set allows us - simply put: better results for our customers compared to other agencies, or from in-house resources. our results speak for themselves. our model allows our customers to start scaling new customer acquisition again, while generating more contribution. -- to see if youre a fit, or just talk shop, head to marathonengine.ai and sign up

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Build your moat. As a consumer business, Brand is your only long-term moat and everything you do builds (or erodes) that moat. Protect your economic castle with the only constantly-learning ML measurement platform that quantifies the long-term incremental baseline revenue impact of your moat-building.

Odeko is building an enterprise-grade software platform for small businesses to realize their own unique visions for the world.