Attributed (possibly misattributed) to Henry Ford.
Innovators build what's needed, ahead of what's expected.
BUILT IN THE REAL WORLD
The record behind the school
Every figure below comes from a company built or a client served.
Academy Xi valuation at its Series A
$22 million
Capital raised, including $1.1m and $2.25m
Three rounds
Founder exit, 2019
Seven figures
OneShift sales growth, later sold for eight figures
3,800%
When growth outruns your range
Being brilliant at one part of business only takes you so far.
Sooner or later the founder has to understand the money. The operator has to see the customer. The specialist has to hold the whole thing. When those parts stay disconnected, decisions get expensive, good ideas stall, and the business keeps depending on you for everything.
You've read the threads, saved the frameworks and finished the courses. Information is everywhere. What moves the work forward is judgement: seeing how the parts connect, making the call, and testing it against reality.
That's the range Faster Zebra builds.
You don't think your way into who you're born to be. You build your way there.
The Neupreneur Era
A school of business teaches business. We make you multilingual in it.
Your first business is your first language lab. You meet Customer when you find a problem worth solving. Product when you make the solution. Brand when you give people a reason to care. Money when someone pays. Growth when you learn to do it again.
BusinessMoneyBrandProductCustomerInnovationGrowthTechnologySelf
Nine languages. One tangible business to practise them on. Information can be downloaded. This has to be lived.
PEOPLE LOVE IT
Start with Young Founders
Build your first business. A playbook for real-world stories, a workbook that gets you from idea to first customer to scale.
The live Kits
Become multilingual in business.
Each Kit is a Playbook to think it through and a Workbook to put it into the world. Digital or print, same shape every time. Start with one, add the rest as you grow.
Young FoundersSome will chase jobs. You'll create them.From $67 AUDDigital, or add printGet this KitThe InnovatorsInnovation is a process. This is the one you run.From $67 AUDDigital, or add printGet this KitBrand MavericksA brand is the soul of a business, made visible. Build that first.From $67 AUDDigital, or add printGet this KitBe YouCome out knowing exactly who you are.From $67 AUDDigital, or add printGet this Kit
The Village
A room of people building alongside you.
Information is everywhere. A room of real people who help you build the thing, and become the person who can, is rare. That's the Village. Founders, operators and professionals, from the just-starting to the thirty-years-in, learning across generations on real work, four seasons a year.
Four live calls a week
MondayBusiness & money
TuesdayInnovation
WednesdayBrand & experience
ThursdayCreativity & the mind
Four seasons a year
ProofBring it to lifeGive the work tangible form and put it where a real person can meet it.
SignalMake it unmistakableA position you can defend, and a voice only you would use.
EngineMake it repeatableTurn founder-held effort into a machine that delivers without burning you out.
Long gameBuild it to lastChoose what deserves to continue, and build the resilience to carry it.
The first season opens September 2026. Join it and you're a founding member: your rate stays $4,950 a year for as long as you're in the room, while everyone who joins later pays more.
For teams
Bring the making into your team's week.
Facilitated sessions where your people work a live business challenge they own, using the same methods our members use on real work.
The capability gets built inside your real work, so it holds after the room clears. Your team leaves with a business challenge moved forward and a capability they keep.
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Proof from the work
The work moved. The capability stayed.
Charbel and Faster Zebra coached our team through six major ventures, embedding a new cadence of innovation. We now build and launch at speed, independently.
Charbel and FZ coached us through a complete CX coaching program and rebuild, working alongside our team the whole way. The lasting win is a team that can sustain the growth on its own.
This helped me lift my career to another level. Great knowledge and technique, and it helped me grow as a solution finder. Love the passion and energy from Charbel.
I came here to learn a range of skills, and I ended up learning about myself and life lessons. It went well beyond what I expected.
An amazing leader and teacher. Charbel brings warmth and a wealth of knowledge, and when mentoring he captivates your mind, always leaving you wanting to learn more.
His enthusiasm for people is contagious. He has deep experience to draw on and always has something current to share. You'll get more than you bargained for with Charbel.
How you grow
Mind. Skills. Soul. Make.
You learn it by building. Mind shapes how you think. Skills help you do the work. Soul shapes who you become. Make puts all three against reality.
MindHow you see, frame, judge and choose.Enter the Mind realm →SkillsHow you research, sell, build and operate.Enter the Skills realm →SoulWho you are, and who you become through the work.Enter the Soul realm →
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Make
The act that ties the three together. You bring all three to something real, reality answers, and you come back sharper. That's the loop. As you build something, it builds you back.
THE NAME
Why Faster? Why Zebra?
Faster.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
Zebra.
A new founder mindset. Unicorns chase valuations. Zebras solve real problems.
Zebras build profitable, sustainable, purpose-led businesses. They work in herds, not alone.
They're real. So is the Village.
ON THE HORIZON
More Kits, coming soon.
Brand, mindset, and experience design. Same shape every time. One price. All yours.
AUGUST 2026
XD 4.0
AUGUST 2026
Los Originales
Q4 2026
Psychonauts
Q4 2026
Scar Bearers
Good things come to those who make.
Start with a Kit and work it on your own. Bring a live challenge into the Village. Or build the capability inside your team.