Empowering business leaders to communicate, educate, and activate the ideas that make free enterprise possible.
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The Challenge
Free enterprise has produced extraordinary gains in human well-being. Yet the dominant cultural narrative increasingly portrays business as exploitative, zero-sum, and morally suspect.
Many business leaders know this story is wrong. But they often lack the language, community, and confidence to publicly defend the moral meaning of their work.
When those who understand value creation remain silent, others define the story of capitalism for them.
Principled Business exists to change this.
Our Approach
We bring together investors, executives, and founders in high-trust settings to build relationships, strengthen conviction, and align around a shared understanding of free enterprise.
Through conferences, workshops, salons, peer groups, and curricula, we help leaders develop a first-principles understanding of capitalism grounded in dignity, agency, voluntary exchange, and value creation.
We help leaders translate conviction into action by advancing these principles within their companies, communities, and the wider culture.
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Building relationships in high-trust settings

OCT 28–30, 2026
Pre-seed and seed-stage founders pitch live at the Principled Business Summit in Austin — with investments totaling $250,000 from Liberty Ventures and The Venture Fund.
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OCT 28–30, 2026
1,000 investors, executives, and entrepreneurs celebrating 250 years of capitalism.
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MAY 22–26, 2027
Intimate gathering of 40+ top business leaders at Richard Branson's private island.
Learn moreThere's a famous saying from William Schlamm:
"The problem with socialism
is socialism.
The problem with capitalism
is capitalists."
Let's prove him wrong.