Hi, I'm Cody McCauley.
I like to work hard
and run far.
10+ years in strategy, partnerships, and operational excellence across tech and investing.
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10+ years in strategy, partnerships, and operational excellence across tech and investing.
I'm a dot connector by nature. Throughout my career, I've held key roles where building relationships has been central to my success. With over a decade of leadership experience as both a people manager and individual contributor across diverse industries ranging from early-stage venture capital and institutional investing to tech startups and consulting, I've built a track record of spearheading high-impact projects, fostering meaningful partnerships, and driving cross-functional teams to deliver results.
I've led research strategy and data partnerships strategy for D. E. Shaw, invested in seed-stage startups and operated as a Chief of Staff at Bloomberg Beta, managed a high-performing strategy consulting team at AlphaSights that scaled from 75 to 1,000+ people, spearheaded go-to-market strategy and strategic partnerships for Towns at HNT Labs on the path to product launch, and currently lead GTM partnerships at TollBit, where we're building a platform for the future of content access by AI visitors on the web.
Outside of work, I'm driven by movement and experiences. I'm passionate about distance running, strength training, learning, surfing, and exploring new places and cultures. I've traveled solo, with friends, and with my wife to 20+ countries across several continents. I love food and see it as the core binding element between cultures. The food scene in NYC has been one of the main reasons I've stuck around here for over 10 years. I'm an avid reader of biographies and believe in the Lindy effect—we can learn the most from those whose success before us has stood the test of time.
I help build and lead strategies that move the needle. Whether bringing a new product to market, improving research processes, or discovering new investment opportunities, I get into the weeds and approach every problem with the ‘job to be done’ mentality.
I was hired to help lead and implement a comprehensive research and data-sourcing strategy to support investment teams managing over $60B in assets. With multiple internal teams and complex data needs, it was crucial to create a process that would help drive meaningful investment opportunities across the firm. I worked cross-functionally with investment groups, legal/compliance, and system engineering teams to develop a streamlined research product that could scale and offer deep value across the organization.
The strategy resulted in enhanced usage of our internal research product and led to improved decision-making across our investment teams. Insights driven by this work helped D. E. Shaw maintain its competitive edge in deploying capital efficiently across discretionary strategies.
I get my hands dirty and wear whatever hat is necessary to help organizations address their most pressing challenges.
When I joined TollBit, my mandate was to help build the partnerships function from the ground up and make it the engine behind our content marketplace. I led a segmented acquisition strategy that dramatically grew our publisher base, built a data-driven pipeline on the demand side to bring AI developers onto the platform, and took ownership of enterprise relationships with major publishers from discovery through deal signature.
In just over a year, the publisher network has grown from hundreds of sites to thousands, and continues to scale. The GTM operating system I built—CRM, OKRs, funnel dashboards, success metrics—gives the team clear visibility into what's working, and the structured experiments we run across verticals continue to sharpen our ICP and sequencing as the platform matures.
Surging is where, through the lens of running, I share musings on training, performance, and how progress compounds. It's a mix of the work and the work behind the work to achieve big goals, in running and beyond.
I've been an athlete my whole life, but I only got into running at the beginning of 2023. Ever since I caught the bug, I haven't been able to stop. Consistency is the name of the game for me, and has been the backbone of my progression as a runner.
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Fun shots from adventures near and far.
