Steve Del Savio / Pack Leader Dogsdiscussed
Pack Leader Dogs (Hoboken, NJ) -- dog training/behavior facility, plus Prestige Pet Partners and Understanding the DogPet training & behavior media -> roll-up of dog-care businesses + franchise-style partnership + paid online community
Creator Fund Weekly — Oct 15, 2026Sam Lessin, Eddie DeDomenico, Megan Lightcap, Caroline Singer
Steve Del Savio / Pack Leader Dogs: three businesses, one dog-psychology platform
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Creator Fund call, Oct 15 2026 (Riverside)
Caroline's pick, framed around her week's theme of 'people who've built three businesses under one platform.' Del Savio approaches dog training from a psychology angle (why dogs are anxious/aggressive, not just obedience) across ~2M followers. Three business lines: Pack Leader Dogs itself (his Jersey facility -- training, private sessions, virtual consultations, booked out ~6 months); Prestige Pet Partners, a partnership with Cesar Milan (who originally trained him) that is actively acquiring and rolling up independent dog-care businesses (grooming, training, daycare -- not breeders); and Understanding the Dog, a paid online community with weekly Q&A and personalized behavioral guidance. Eddie had separately used an overnight dog-psychology trainer and vouched for how legitimate and impressive the work looks in person.
Things We Like
- Three-business flywheel under one creator identity -- content (free top of funnel), his own facility (booked 6 months out), and a roll-up vehicle (Prestige Pet Partners) acquiring other dog-care businesses
- Real credibility chain: trained directly by Cesar Milan, now in a formal partnership with him on the roll-up
- A recurring, paid community product (Understanding the Dog) layered on top of the content and services businesses
- Category tailwind flagged on the same call: rising awareness of dog-daycare/boarding quality (a recent high-profile story about a dog dying at an LA daycare) that favors an institutionalized, branded alternative
Key Questions
- Megan wants to meet him directly -- is he reachable and interested in outside capital given the business already throws off cash?
- What exactly does Prestige Pet Partners roll up -- confirmed on the call to be grooming/training/daycare operators, not breeders -- how many locations/units so far?
- Caroline is outbounding; worth understanding succession/scale plan for the roll-up vehicle specifically, separate from the content business
Conversation Quotes
- “He has three kind of businesses under his platform. He has two million followers across everything”Caroline
- “They are basically acquiring and scaling independent breed, like dog breeders, daycares, training businesses... kind of like it's a roll-up business right now”Caroline
- “I was sending my dogs to an overnight person who fancied himself... a dog psychologist too. And it was pretty impressive what they were able to do with animals”Eddie
- “I think we should try and meet him”Megan