William Schlacks
Co-founder and President of EquipmentShare
William "Willy" Schlacks co-founded EquipmentShare, a construction equipment rental and technology company in Columbia, Missouri, with his brother Jabbok, and has been its president since November 2014. The company went through Y Combinator in Winter 2015 and listed on Nasdaq in January 2026. He is also a general partner at Redbud VC, a venture firm that started in Columbia.
- Construction technology
- Equipment rental
EquipmentShare
- Y Combinator
Redbud VC
- Now
- Co-founder and President, EquipmentShare2
- Company
- EquipmentShare, Y Combinator Winter 20151
- Also
- General Partner, Redbud VC7
- Based
- Greater Columbia, Missouri Area2
Experience
EquipmentShare2014 – now
- Co-founder and President2Nov 2014 – now
Redbud VCnow
- General Partnernow
One of three general partners, with Brett Calhoun and Jabbok Schlacks.7
MachineLINK2016 – now
- CEO2Sep 2016 – now
Tiger Storage2013 – now
- Co-owner2Sep 2013 – now
NASS2013 – now
- Co-owner2Apr 2013 – now
Schlacks2011 – now
- Co-owner2Jun 2011 – now
Education
Recognition
20 Under 40 (2016 list)Dec 2015
Award · COMO Magazine6
Milestones
- EquipmentShare, then a peer-to-peer equipment rental marketplace, wins the grand prize at the fourth Startup Weekend Columbia9
- Starts as co-founder and president of EquipmentShare2
- EquipmentShare joins Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch1
- Named with his brother Jabbok to COMO Magazine's 20 Under 40 list for 20166
- Becomes CEO of MachineLINK2
- Announced as a speaker at the ALH Conference in San Diego, on how EquipmentShare's rental business uses telematics and on remotely operated machinery4
- EquipmentShare raises a $290 million Series E led by funds affiliated with BDT Capital Partners8
- EquipmentShare files its S-1 registration with the SEC to go public10
- EquipmentShare prices its IPO at $24.50 a share, raising about $747 million, and starts trading on Nasdaq as EQPT11