Marlin & Spike advises founders, funds and families on scarce assets: what holds its worth as intelligence becomes abundant. It holds positions of its own where conviction runs deepest.
Thesis-driven counsel for founders, funds and families: strategy, markets and positioning where the charts are still being drawn.
Structuring, capital introductions and negotiation. Nimble by design: quick, considered decisions, and doors that stay open.
Our own capital, committed to scarcity: assets that grow rarer as everything around them becomes abundant.
A boutique practice. Direct counsel, and with skin in the game.
We work with a small number of clients around a single thesis: as intelligence and production become abundant, value migrates to what cannot be copied. No committees, no intermediaries. Judgement earned at the front of these markets, offered plainly. Few find us by accident. If you need us, you already know who we are.
The name nods to Marlinspike Hall, and to the sailor's spike for working loose the stubbornest of knots.