Every company we own serves families with kids. We bought three businesses those families already trusted, and we built three companies that serve the people who run, coach, and grow up in them.
Before Long Road, Jeremy Kane spent a decade building schools in Nashville.
In 2006 he mortgaged his house, knocked on more than a thousand doors, and opened LEAD Academy. It grew from a middle school into the city's first public charter high school, and it became the only public school in Nashville to graduate 100% of its seniors and have them all accepted to a four-year college.
From there he built LEAD Public Schools, Tennessee's first charter management organization, into six schools. Two were conversions of struggling district schools: Cameron College Prep, Tennessee's first district-charter conversion, and Brick Church College Prep. LEAD Southeast and LEAD Madison followed. He stepped down in 2014, the year LEAD graduated its first senior class.
He founded Long Road Partners in 2015 to help schools, healthcare companies, and growing businesses solve hard problems. Advising taught us a lot. Building and owning taught us more. We launched Hustle/Op in 2019 and bought our first gyms in 2023. Today the family lives in the Salt Lake City area, running what we bought and building what was missing.
We buy businesses families already trust, keep the name on the door, and stay for the long haul. All three are owned and operated by K2 Achievement, our affiliate.
A gymnastics gym in Cypress, Texas, with a big K2 on the wall and a community that already loved it. It's also home to Explorers at K2, our early learning program, and Hustle/Op runs there every day.
See K2 AcademyThe largest gymnastics facility in Northern Kentucky: preschool classes, ninja, camps, and parties, taught with low student-to-coach ratios. We kept the name on the door and the culture that made it work.
See Top FlightA preschool and childcare center with deep roots in its community. It's now part of Explorers Learning Centers, alongside Explorers at K2.
See ExplorersEach one started with a problem we saw up close in youth sports and education. All three are live with customers today.
Gym owners run on good class software and a pile of spreadsheets for everything else. Hustle/Op sits on top of iClassPro and puts marketing, enrollment, and financials in one view. Since 2023 we've refined it inside our own gyms and schools.
See Hustle/OpCoaches and preschool teachers look after kids all day. Small programs, ours included, struggle to give them simple, affordable access to care. Bivvy gives staff 24/7 telehealth for $39 a month, with nothing for a small employer to administer.
See Bivvy HealthWe went through volleyball recruiting as a family and watched services charge thousands to sell exposure instead of fit. Set Point finds the colleges where an athlete actually fits, then helps them get ready. We built it with our daughter Wells at the table.
See Set Point5+ years average ownership. 100% principal-owned. Tell us about your business and we'll take it from there.
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