Founder Events
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AI Agents Make In-Person Networking More Valuable for Founders
AI agents take over the busywork of meeting people. The conversations that only happen face to face become the scarce part of founder networking.
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Recaps and operating lessons from private dinners, salons, panels, and summits — with a focus on curation, conversation quality, and what happens after the room.
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Founder Events
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Bay Area AI Events for Founders: How to Choose the Rooms Worth Your Time
A framework for choosing San Francisco and Bay Area AI events — built around the value each room can create for a founder.
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Founder Events
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Inside a Private Bay Area Founders Dinner: Why Smaller Rooms Create More Value
Around 30 founders, Brazilian barbecue, and a long table designed for conversations that could go somewhere. What this private dinner taught us about building a room with real value.
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Founder Events
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Ten AI-Native Companies, One Closed Room — AI Tech Salon Night
Ten founders took three minutes each. Here is what every one of them is building, who else was in the room, and why this kind of evening is worth more to a startup than another conference badge.
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Founder Events
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Case Study: Producing Soulscape 2026 — a Global AI Film Summit at KQED
Three days at KQED San Francisco. A thousand attendees, two hundred filmmakers, thirty-nine films made in 48 hours. Notes from producing Soulscape 2026 — and what the room said afterwards.
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Why Curated Founder Rooms Beat Generic Networking
The best rooms are designed around useful disagreement, not attendance count.
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