Andrew Runnette

Andrew Runnette shares insights from a Thesis Driven piece by Paul Stanton: "GP Studios" made up of ex-Blackstone and Starwood execs are backing niche operators with co-GP capital targeting 4 to 10x returns, with cowarehousing making the list.

The shift means the operating company itself is now the investment, not just the building. But the weak spot for operators is missing back-office infrastructure like SOPs and reporting systems, so building that layer now is key to winning capital.

Andrew Runnette at Biz Ops Studio lays out a structural shift: companies are quietly dropping entry-level hires (junior dev postings down 53% per Indeed, per research from Erik Brynjolfsson’s lab at Stanford) while ramping up spending on fractional executives, now a $5.7B market growing 14% annually according to Vendux.

The new org shape is a small core team (see HI-C’s), with AI agents handling junior work, and senior fractional leaders or forward-deployed engineers brought in for specific needs.

The practical warning: if the entry-level pipeline dries up, there won’t be enough experienced senior talent to fill fractional roles in a decade, so companies and operators should start deliberately designing for this new shape now instead of defaulting to old hiring patterns.

Andrew Runnette shares five ways they made sure that community managers did not to be constantly online across 7 locations.

In short: Async-first comms, default to messages, escalate only where necessary. But the post breaks down what that looks like in practice.

Andrew Runnette from Biz Ops Studio makes the case that most operators do NOT need a full-time COO, but could leverage a fractional executive instead.

He also shares three ops walls that most operators hit, after having scaled Portal Warehousing from 1 to 7 locations.

Emerging trend: Fractional coworking leadership.

Andrew Runnette from BizOpsStudio shares 5 actionable steps (based on hospitality principles) to boost retention from first touch through to month 53.