Rotem Yakir

Rotem Yakir

Golfer, Advisor & Fractional Leader

I partner with founders to sharpen strategy, product, positioning, and growth - or embed as a fractional leader to drive execution, hiring, and scale.

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In the past 21 years I released dozens of products from 0-to-1. I failed most of them. Here are some of my successful ones.

100M+ Users
Guggy (YC S17) was a company that created multiple B2C products dedicated to make people laugh
$100M TVL
Blockchain products (DeFi & NFTs) that processed and held over $100M in value
75+ Deployments
MySP is a B2B enterprise business process automation platform

As a 3x founder and YC alum, I bring founders and teams practical guidance and hands-on leadership.

Advisory Role

  • 🎯 Strategic guidance on product, technology, and growth
  • 📊 Clarity on product-market fit and KPIs
  • 💰 Fundraising support and investor narrative shaping
  • 🤝 Access to my network of founders, VCs, and operators
  • 🎓 Coaching for founders and leadership teams

Fractional Leadership

  • ⚡ Hands-on CTO/CPO/COO execution and decision-making
  • 🚀 Driving product roadmaps and shipping cadence
  • 👥 Scaling engineering and product teams
  • 🔒 Implementing systems for reliability, security, and data
  • 📈 Embedding execution rituals that move metrics

I worked with many founders and teams to help them achieve their goals. Here are some of them.

"Rotem turned a complex art-tech vision into a working product in record time."
David Stein, CEO, The Symbols
"Rotem sharpened our go-to-market and helped us grow the first 50k members."
Arik Mormenstein, Founder, Spectroomz
"Rotem was pivotal in our fundraising, product-market fit, positioning, and growth."
Or Dadush, CEO & Founder, IronBlocks & Venn Network

You might ask yourself, if Rotem is so good, why is he doing this?

  • 🎯 I prefer working on multiple interesting projects instead of focusing on just one.
  • ⚡ The 20/80 rule - I can deliver 80% of the value in 20% of the time.
  • 🏌️ Work-life balance matters (family, golf, sanity).
  • 🧠 Learning about new projects keeps my mind open and sharp.
  • 🚀 And who knows? The right opportunity might pull me back into building full-time.

If you're experiencing these, I can probably help:

  • 🎯 Struggling to find or validate product-market fit
  • 💰 Fundraising feels stuck or your investor story isn't landing
  • 🗺️ Your product roadmap is unclear or execution keeps slipping
  • 👥 You need to scale engineering/product teams but don't know how
  • 👔 Lacking senior leadership (CTO, CPO, COO) but can't hire full-time yet
  • 📈 Growth is slowing and you're unsure which metrics to prioritize
  • 🔥 Too many fires, not enough systems and rituals to run smoothly

About Me

Hi, my name is Rotem Yakir, I'm mid-40s, married with four kids and... I'm a golf addict.

What started as "just a bucket of balls to clear my head" turned into launch monitors in the living room, family vacations planned around municipal 9-holes, and kids who know the difference between carry distance and total distance before they know long division.

I bring the same obsessive energy I pour into golf into my work as a founder, advisor, and fractional leader. Over the past two decades I've built products used by millions, raised capital, scaled teams, and helped companies find their swing - whether that's hitting product-market fit, tightening operations, or lining up the next round of fundraising.

So yes, I may have a slice that still won't go away, but when it comes to building companies, I'm straight down the middle.