A Ten-Year Overnight Success: The Inspiring Story of a Business You've Never Heard of

by Jon Coss

This is a story for the rest of us. Those who want to grow their companies but can't find relatable inspiration, or guidance, in current business literature. It's a story about a company that you've never heard of, but one that used computer algorithms to save the American taxpayer over $60 Billion in government pandemic relief fraud. And it's about an unlikely founder who takes the risks and inspires his team to go from an idea to a nine-figure exit in less than 9 years.



In A Ten-Year Overnight Success, Pondera Solutions founder, Jon Coss, takes you with him on his journey through what he describes as the four stages of a typical startup. You'll share his raw emotions through the "rise and fall of enthusiasm", his months of desperation in the "desert of despair", his tempered confidence through "wiggles of hope", and his immense relief and sense of accomplishment marching toward the "Promised Land".



Jon's story-telling narrative combines soul-searching truths with self-deprecating humor to provide you with an inside look at what it takes to achieve the success that less than 1% of businesses ever will. Along the way, he offers practical, nuanced lessons that you won't find in the typical business book. Lessons learned in the trenches. Lessons that may not make you the next Tesla but are sure to grow your business. Lessons that apply to the rest of us.

330 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2024

About the author

Following a spectacularly unsuccessful professional tennis career, Jon landed a job at Oracle Corporation where he cut his teeth in technology. After leaving the corporate world, he would start four technology companies, three of which were acquired and the fourth which he prefers not to talk about.

Jon’s most successful startup, Pondera Solutions, was one of the first companies to combine cloud computing with Artificial Intelligence. Its story offers valuable lessons for would-be entrepreneurs in the hyper-competitive technology world.

Jon has provided strategic consulting to many of the world’s largest technology companies including IBM, Intel, Deloitte, Accenture, SAP, Capgemini, KPMG, and Xerox. He is also a nationally recognized expert in government benefits fraud.

Jon has consulted with and been interviewed by dozens of television stations and newspapers including the NBC Today show, CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX newscasts, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News, Fortune Magazine, and Politico.

Jon writes about topics that matter deeply to him and those that he feels do not receive adequate attention in current literature. He mixes heartfelt honesty with self-deprecating humor to take the reader alongside him on his journey.