Mike Lewis – Enjoy The Work

Mike Lewis

General Partner

Mike Lewis is a three-time founder, a former hypergrowth product leader at Airbnb, and a General Partner at Enjoy The Work, where he advises founders building the next generation of technology with hard-earned conviction on what stays constant across stages, business models, and markets.

Companies Mike helped build

Two decades founding, scaling, and exiting companies — and $1B+ built inside Airbnb.

  • Head of Product · $0 → $1B+

  • Founded · Scaled to $13M · Exited

  • Founded · Exited

What Mike’s founders have to say

“I know the importance of having a coach to support my goals, and Mike has been an invaluable coach to me in achieving my business goals.”

Jake Hirabayashi

The Futures App

“Mike Lewis is by far and away the person you want in your corner during this fight. Best executive coach I have worked with by a long shot, and is highly recommended to any serious founder looking to take it to the next level.”

Benjamin Lazarov

AnyCreek + Origin

“Great perspective, super insights and high energy. I've worked with him directly — just did a hike yesterday :)”

Steve Chen

Boldin

“Mike Lewis has been an amazing resource for us. Always asking the right questions, helping us strategize the right chess moves, and — probably most importantly — just a good human to do hard things with.”

Kyle Pontier

Reconciled

“Mike Lewis has been awesome for Ajith and me. It feels like he's part of our team. TL;DR — work with Mike, it's your gift to yourself :)”

Avinash Joshi

Cactus

“Highly recommend Mike Lewis as an executive coach.”

Henry Abenaim

Fundingo

“Highly recommend Mike Lewis. Tremendous resource and person for founders to work with.”

JP Gooderham

Storyboard

“Mike is the best!”

Max Eisendrath

Redflag AI

“Mike has been AMAZING for Avinash Joshi and me!”

Ajith Govind Satheesh

Cactus

“Easily Mike's the best!”

John Gargiulo

Airpost

The skills of the CEO determine the ceiling for a startup.

Mike’s Appearances

Airbnb
Berkeley Skydeck
Startupfest

Over the last 20 years, Mike has founded and successfully exited three startups: Qloud, a B2C on-demand music streaming service that grew to over 10M monthly unique visitors; Kapost, a B2B SaaS company he scaled to over $13M in revenue and 100+ employees; and Onward, a ride-sharing service for seniors partnered with hospitals and medical facilities. In between, he served as Head of Product for Airbnb for Work and Airbnb Luxe from 2015 to 2019, growing departmental bookings from zero to over $1B in 2.5 years.

Talks +
podcasts

Blogposts