Why Athena
Having been through every stage of a startup, we can tell you that the people who appear most successful are the ones best at leveraging the talents of an extraordinary team.
Athena is yours.
Our secret weapon in growing companies was developing a deep partnership with Jam and Marni, our Executive Assistants. They don't just save us time; they gives us massive leverage. They help recruit talent, manage our inboxes, build deeper relationships with friends, hit our work and personal goals. In short, our assistants help us win – both work and life.
Why Athena?
Athena is a decade’s worth of learning on how to delegate for 10x leverage. We offer:
1) Recruiting: We have interviewed over 500,000 assistants from around the world and have developed a best in class recruiting process and matching algorithm. We find people with raw potential rather than people who simply have experience. We source assistants who are excited to build a long-term relationship, and we only want clients who are equally long-term focused.
2) Training: Your assistant will graduate from Athena’s four week training academy before your kick off and will get continuous ongoing mentorship. S/he will work exclusively for you so s/he will be dedicated to understanding you and no one else. We’ve been working with our assistants for almost a decade. Every month the relationship gets more powerful.
3) Delegating: Many people can't even imagine all the things you can accomplish with an assistant. We already have. We'll share delegation playbooks that we've honed over the last decade to train you to work better, live better, and be better. Want all your contacts organized and updated? We have a playbook for that. Wish you could finish a day of meetings and find your inbox organized and email responses pre-drafted? Ditto. Want to send gifts to your friends on their birthdays, get custom bios of everyone you meet with, never book a flight or fill out a form online again, organize entrepreneur dinners wherever you travel, hit more of your professional goals, have more time for your life? You get the point.
Many people buy clothes or cars or carats but the most successful people buy time. The highest performers continually invest in increasing their productivity. If you don't have an assistant, you are the assistant. Imagine what level you could perform at if you had a team pushing you to delegate more and more and more.
Athena is not for everybody. If you are looking for help short-term, think an AI assistant can offer you what you need, aren't willing to put the hard work in to increase your productivity, or don’t think our pricing is a completely obvious investment, we recommend looking elsewhere.
If you’re excited to learn how to delegate 10x more, gain leverage in all areas of your life and build a relationship with an assistant that compounds in value every year, we would be thrilled to partner with you.
Robert + Jonathan
Hi, this is Jonathan. I'm the Founder/Chairman of Athena. Over the last decade, I helped build Thumbtack from an idea into a team of more than 1,000 people and $3B in marketplace volume.
Having been through every stage of a startup, I can tell you that the people who appear most successful are the ones best at leveraging the talents of an extraordinary team. Athena is yours.
My secret weapon growing Thumbtack was developing a deep partnership with Marni, my Philippines-based Executive Assistant. Marni doesn't just save me time; she gives me massive leverage. She helps me recruit talent, she manages my inbox, she helps me build deeper relationships with my friends, she helps me hit my work and personal goals. In short, my EA helps me win - both work and life.
Why Athena?
We run a search process personalized to your exact needs. We find people with raw potential rather than people who simply have experience. We source EAs who are excited to build a decade+ relationship, and we only want clients who are equally long- term focused.
Your EA will be trained by Marni and her team of EAs and will work exclusively for you so s/he will be dedicated to understanding you and no one else. My EA and I've been working together for almost a decade. Every month the relationship gets more powerful.
Many people can't even imagine all the things you can accomplish with a Philippines-based EA. We already have. We'll share delegation playbooks that I've honed over the last decade to train you to work better, live better, and be better. Want all your contacts organized and updated? We have a playbook for that. Wish you could finish a day of meetings and find your inbox organized and email responses pre- drafted? Ditto. Want to send gifts to your friends on their birthdays, get custom bios of everyone you meet with, never book a flight or fill out a form online again, organize entrepreneur dinners wherever you travel, hit more of your professional goals, have more time for your life? You get the point.
Athena is not for everybody. If you are looking for help short-term, think an Al assistant can offer you what you need, aren't willing to put the hard work in to increase your productivity, or don't think our pricing is a completely obvious investment, we recommend looking elsewhere.
If you're excited to learn how to delegate 10x more, gain leverage in all areas of your life and build a relationship with an EA that grows more valuable over the course of a decade, we would be thrilled to partner with you.
High fives, Jonathan
