// PERSON
Hamilton Helmer
ROLE AUTHORMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
// BIO
Hamilton Helmer is Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Strategy Capital and the author of 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, named a Bloomberg Best Book of 2017. He previously taught Business Strategy in the Economics Department at Stanford University for a decade and led over 200 strategy consulting engagements through his firm Helmer & Associates, later Deep Strategy, for clients including Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, Netflix, and Spotify. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and a B.A. from Williams College.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
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mention·The a16z Show·SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
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mention·Lenny's·SEPTEMBER 6, 2026
“Hamilton Helmer — Author of 'Seven Powers', cited as one of Acharya's 'five real business books.'”
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