Adam Radly Robert Bates are the founders of the Radly Bates Index (“RBI”), an index designed to track the state of entrepreneurship in the United States design. It is based on data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2000 Adam was the founder of World Reconciliation Day featuring Nelson Mandela – an event attended by ten of thousands of people where he presented a donation of US$1 million to Nelson Mandela’s non profit.
Adam Radly founded S7 in Los Angeles in 2004 after founding Mediacom – a media services company that grew from nothing to complete a $50 million IPO. Adam is originally from Melbourne, Australia and splits his time between the United States.
Bob Bates is a CPA, CVA, CFE with over 25 years of accounting experience as a Controller and CFO in various types of businesses up to $10 billion in size. Bob was in pre-IPO companies and CFO in a growing public company, responsible for SEC filings. He was on the founding team of a Fintech company and a Retail App startup.
He has done many acquisitions, performed SOX work, has done dozens of valuations, stock options accounting and forensic work (discovered a $300,000 embezzlement).
The RBI Entrepreneurship Index measures the % of the active workforce that is self employed. The RBI is updated monthly at the same time as the monthly jobs data is released. The RBI is based on data from the US Bureau Of Labor Statistics. The RBI is part of S7 Group – a private investment company See more details at
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