About Retrocause
Retrocause is a business-building program designed for founders who want to grow with clarity, control, and purpose.
We work with growth-stage companies — whether Series A–ready or scaling profitably — to bring order to the chaos and replace guesswork with systems.
Using the Levers Framework, we help founders clarify their vision, align their team, and build businesses that are repeatable, capital-efficient, and truly sustainable.
Retrocause isn’t just a program. It’s a shift in mindset.
We believe great companies are built with intention — not by over-raising, over-hiring, or over-complicating.
Retrocause is founded and led by Amos Schwartzfarb, a 6x startup executive, long-time Techstars Managing Director, and best-selling author of Sell More Faster and Levers.
After working with hundreds of founders over the past two decades, Amos created Retrocause to help entrepreneurs stop spinning their wheels and start building companies that actually work — for their customers, their teams, and themselves.
Levers workshop faciliation team
Trevor Boehm
Trevor Boehm was a writer before finding his way into building companies. A serial founder, he has also invested in more than forty startups, many of those through Techstars’ first Impact accelerator and as Managing Director of Alexa Next Stage, a program run with the Amazon Alexa Fund. He is currently at the venture fund Saturn Five.
Cody Simms
Cody Simms has been working in high growth technology endeavors since moving to San Francisco in 1999 to get a job using his Chinese language skills and accidentally falling into the dotcom boom with a pre-IPO startup. He’s held product roles at StumbleUpon, Yahoo, The New York Times, Sprint, and NBC Internet and has been supporting startup ecosystems as a career since 2013.