Most startup advice is for the start. This isn't that.
If you're past the existential founder stage and are deep in the execution grind, then this is your room.
🕴️Who This Is For
You've crossed the Rubicon. You've moved beyond product-market fit. Now you're worry about whether that technical debt will collapse the system, or whether you can trust what's being reported up to you.
🫷 Hard Requirements
- $3M+ ARR (or equivalent GMV/run rate for marketplace/transactional models)
- OR $10M+ raised from institutional investors
- You manage managers. Not just direct reports.
- Full-time commitment. This is your career, not an experiment.
If you're still founder-led selling, pivoting your core value prop, or managing everyone directly, you're not there yet. That's not a judgment. It's just a different phase with different problems.
🏨 What This Actually Is
No panels. No pitches. No sales speeches.
24 experienced founders in a closed room at the National Arts Club, a 126-year-old private members club on Gramercy Park where real conversations happen behind closed doors.
The kind of place where you can admit you have no idea how to compensate a sales team, or that you're about to fire the co-founder who got you here.
Together, we'll solve your operational bottlenecks through direct experience-sharing, brutal honesty about what failed, and introductions to people who've been through it.
📈 Stage Homogeneity, Industry Heterogeneity
The group is stage-specific (Series A/B, scaling phase) but sector-agnostic (Fintech, SaaS, Proptech, D2C... doesn't matter).
You need peers who are feeling the same structural breaks right now. Not people ahead of you giving theoretical advice. Not people behind you asking you for help.
🏆 What You Walk Away With
- Specific solutions to your current bottlenecks (or the people who can provide it)
- A network of founders who understand the isolation of scaling. New peers that you can text when you're about to make a terrible hiring decision
- Permission to reject the standard Manager Mode advice and build something that actually works
🕰️ Details
- Date: Friday, March 6th, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
- Location: The National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, Manhattan
- Size: 24 seats (strict cap)
- Cost: $100 (includes lunch and bar)
- Dress: Business casual (it's a members club, but we're not trying that hard)
📝 Application Required
We're vetting for stage alignment and operational reality.
If you're reading this and thinking "I'm not sure I qualify," then you probably don't yet... and that's okay. You will soon.
But if you're reading this and thinking "Finally, someone gets it!" then apply now.
📲 Know someone who fits? Forward this. The value of the room increases with the quality of the people in it.
Advanced Founder Roundtable Lunch
Host
Fri, Mar 06, 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (EST)
To be shared on approval (New York)
24 attendees
Most startup advice is for the start. This isn't that.
If you're past the existential founder stage and are deep in the execution grind, then this is your room.
🕴️Who This Is For
You've crossed the Rubicon. You've moved beyond product-market fit. Now you're worry about whether that technical debt will collapse the system, or whether you can trust what's being reported up to you.
🫷 Hard Requirements
If you're still founder-led selling, pivoting your core value prop, or managing everyone directly, you're not there yet. That's not a judgment. It's just a different phase with different problems.
🏨 What This Actually Is
No panels. No pitches. No sales speeches.
24 experienced founders in a closed room at the National Arts Club, a 126-year-old private members club on Gramercy Park where real conversations happen behind closed doors.
The kind of place where you can admit you have no idea how to compensate a sales team, or that you're about to fire the co-founder who got you here.
Together, we'll solve your operational bottlenecks through direct experience-sharing, brutal honesty about what failed, and introductions to people who've been through it.
📈 Stage Homogeneity, Industry Heterogeneity
The group is stage-specific (Series A/B, scaling phase) but sector-agnostic (Fintech, SaaS, Proptech, D2C... doesn't matter).
You need peers who are feeling the same structural breaks right now. Not people ahead of you giving theoretical advice. Not people behind you asking you for help.
🏆 What You Walk Away With
🕰️ Details
📝 Application Required
We're vetting for stage alignment and operational reality.
If you're reading this and thinking "I'm not sure I qualify," then you probably don't yet... and that's okay. You will soon.
But if you're reading this and thinking "Finally, someone gets it!" then apply now.
📲 Know someone who fits? Forward this. The value of the room increases with the quality of the people in it.