William Schlacks is a serial founder who co-founded and helped build EquipmentShare into a multi-billion-dollar construction equipment platform before becoming an investor at Redbud.vc, bringing unusually deep operating experience in heavy industry and complex operations rather than pure software backgrounds. He has raised hundreds of millions in both equity and debt capital for capital-intensive, hardware-plus-software businesses and approaches venture from a non-coastal Midwest perspective, focusing on founders building real-world, operations-heavy businesses in traditional industries. William Schlacks is a serial founder who co-founded and helped build EquipmentShare into a multi-billion-dollar construction equipment platform before becoming an investor at Redbud.vc, bringing unusually deep operating experience in heavy industry and complex operations rather than pure software backgrounds. He has raised hundreds of millions in both equity and debt capital for capital-intensive, hardware-plus-software businesses and approaches venture from a non-coastal Midwest perspective, focusing on founders building real-world, operations-heavy businesses in traditional industries.