I truly love hosting dinners. I’ve now hosted over 100 dinners for ~3,000 people and somehow each one is more fun than the last.

I’m hosting a dinner for CEOs and startup leaders at The Ned on Oct 27. If you’re a founder/chief of staff of a Series A+ company, I’d love to invite you. Hosting this on behalf of my new biz @TheShortlistNYC. Dinner is on us and it will be a great room. DM me / apply below.

Hosted one of my favorite dinners ever at the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's last night in San Francisco. Thank you to the 40 Series A, B, and C founders who came out. It was awesome meeting you all. I love coming to SF!

Every so often I find a product that genuinely amazes me. Like the first time I had the spicy rigatoni at Carbone and finally understood the hype. Last month I had that moment again, except this one saves me around $100K a year. I was about to hire a product manager for roughly that much. Then I realized a tool called @viktor_com was already doing the job. Every morning, before I’m even awake, it: - Filters the news down to what actually matters to me - Reads my emails, calendar, messages, and meeting notes for content ideas hiding in what I’m already doing - Scrapes the web for what’s trending in my space - And runs about a hundred other things in the background Then it hands me a short list of things to write about. My entire morning of work, done in minutes. But content is just where I started.  It’s also the project manager that keeps me and my team on track, pulling together what's due and what's waiting on me. It's the head of ops that connects my calendar with my inbox and my notes, And handle all the repetitive work. I used to lose hours too. The thing about Viktor is that it's not replacing my thinking. All the ideas, all the decisions and judgments are still mine. @viktor_com just gathers the information with the detailed context that no new employee would ever have on day one I recommend everyone who's running a business to try it. Try it below!

I'm hosting an exclusive dinner for founders at the only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in SF on Oct 15. If you're a Series A+ founder building something cool ... we'd love to have you. Some of the folks coming: – Built a social network that hit #1 on the app store – Top 30 in League of Legends in America – Dropped out of Stanford, MIT and Harvard – First startup grew to 20M users – Raised from Usher and Dua Lipa Apply below (or DM me)

I'm excited to announce @meetgranola as a partner of the Outliers Summit (Nov 5-6, NYC). If you haven't used it, @meetgranola is the AI notepad I use for my calls. It takes notes while you talk, so you can stay in the conversation instead of typing. Everyone who gets a ticket to Outliers gets 3 months of Granola free. Granola was quick to say yes. When I asked if we could say we partnered up, they said go for it, and they set up a dedicated 3-month offer just for our ticket holders. If you want to meet the most unreasonably ambitious builders in November, come to the summit. Ticket holders get the Granola code in their perks kit.

ANNOUNCEMENT: We've opened up 50 spots at the Outliers Summit for students for just $19 (discounted from $209) Why? Because some of the people who'd get the most out of this room are the ones least able to afford it. When I was a student, I had no idea there were paths beyond the 9 to 5. Nobody showed me that you could build a company, an audience, or a career on your own terms. I wish a room like this had existed back then. So we're opening the doors. The Outliers Summit is a 2-day summit for the unreasonably ambitious founders, builders, and operators, learning from entrepreneurs like @thesamparr @nateliason & @ankurnagpal Details: – Open to any enrolled undergrad or grad student, any school, anywhere – Apply with your school email – Only 50 tickets at $19 available Applications close October 15. If you're a student, apply. If you know one, tag them below: outlierssummit.com/students

We are hiring event and marketing interns at @meetfibe & @TheShortlistNYC You will meet amazing CEOs at dinner and learn a ton about content, community, marketing, and tech. Another side benefit: more than half our team has grown their social media following to over 10K followers. We will teach you how. Info below!

I'm hosting a 12-course tasting menu dinner for SF's fastest-growing CEOs and founders on Oct 10. Previous attendees include 8- and 9-figure CEOs, media personalities, and execs. We have six seats left and are hosting in the private room at Hed11, a Michelin Guide-recognized Thai fine-dining restaurant featured in the San Francisco Chronicle and Eater. If you're building something, I'd love to invite you. Send me a DM or RSVP with the link below.

We're hosting our next Junto Founder Dinner on Sep 30 at a spectacular, three-story Japanese sushi dining spot in NYC. If you're the founder of a company with *some* traction - live product, customers, users, revenue, capital raised - we'd love to meet you! Some of the folks coming so far: - The co-founder of a developer-learning platform with over a million users - was among the youngest people to pass the New York bar - The founder of a short-form media company - built it to over a billion views and sold it to a major business-news publisher - A founder who sold a food-subscription startup after growing to millions of dollars or revenue a year & many more... Apply to attend below (or DM me)

I'm hosting our next founder dinner on Sep 14 at a private lounge in the East Village. If you're the founder of a company with *some* traction - live product, customers, users, revenue, capital raised - we'd love to meet you! We pride ourselves on having rooms of diverse, multidisciplinary builders. At our last founder dinner, we had a former ballet dancer, Olympic athlete, skydiver, politician, and even Miss Canada. DM me or apply below.

I turn 31 today. Instead of my usual "things I learned" this year, I'm sharing the things I changed my mind about. I believe part of maturing is developing the capacity to change your perspective based on new information. I’ve done that a lot this year, and these are the ideas that stuck with me. 1. You can do anything, but not everything. Focus is a superpower, and one year of obsession can change your life. 2. Giving without expectation gets you walked all over. Give first, but strategically, to people you trust to reciprocate. 3. Overoptimizing is a trap. Taking anything to an extreme costs you more than it gives. 4. Entrepreneurship isn't always the highest form of leverage. You can now get founder-level equity without founder-level risk. 5. Character is a choice, not a requirement. Plenty of dishonest people win, so I've stopped conflating business success with personal success. 6. Spending well matters as much as saving well. Not knowing how to spend can be as costly as not knowing how to save. 7. There's wisdom in biting your tongue. Not everyone wants your feedback or your honest opinion, and learning to keep it to yourself is its own kind of maturity. 8. Not everyone has to like you. When someone doesn't, nothing actually happens, and that realization is freeing. 9. Sometimes the harder path is the least crowded one. The easiest way to beat the competition is to go where there isn't any. 10. You get more than six shots. AI has compressed timeframes so much you can now live multiple lives in the time it used to take to live one. 11. It might look stupid at first. The best ideas look strange at the start, because if they were obvious, someone would already be doing them. 12. And finally, there are only two ways to slow time down: travel and new experiences, and doing hard things. 31 feels good. Thank you for growing alongside me!

ANNOUNCEMENT: @thesamparr, founder of @HamptonFounders, @TheHustle & @myfirstmilpod, is speaking at the Outliers Summit, Nov 5–6. Sam started The Hustle from his kitchen table with $12. He grew it into a media company reaching millions of readers daily, then sold it to @HubSpot in 2021 for a reported $27M. Then he did it again. He founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for founders and CEOs, and built My First Million into one of the most listened-to business podcasts in the world. Sam has spent his entire career on one bet: that the most valuable thing you can build is an audience and a community that trusts you. What does media, distribution, and community-building look like when everyone has the same AI tools? Sam has answers most people don't. Join Sam and speakers like @rrhoover (Product Hunt), @dunn (Pie, Bonobos), @zsims (CodeAcademy), @shl (Gumroad), and more on Nov 5 and 6 in NYC. Apply to attend below 👇

Two weeks ago, we announced the Outliers Summit (Nov 5–6), a two-day gathering for founders, operators, and builders bringing unreasonably ambitious ideas to life. Hosted with my friend @ankurnagpal and @AngelList We underestimated the demand for it. Since launching, we've had HUNDREDS of people apply. - The Former C-suite of a $100B public company now working on something new - The CTO of a mental fitness app with >$600M raised and a multi-billion-dollar valuation - Execs at companies like Google, Amazon, Meta, Stripe, BCG, PwC, and more The applications have been pouring in, far more than we expected, and our team needs more time to review them all properly. So we're making a call: early-bird pricing stays open through September 1. If you apply between now and then, you're locked in at the early-bird rate. After September 1, prices go up 30%. Quick reminder of what you're applying for: two days in NYC (November 5 and 6) with the most unreasonably ambitious builders, founders, and operators I know. One day to build with the AI tools that all the high-level builders are using. Another day for the candid, off-the-record conversations you won't hear on a podcast. Speakers include: - @rrhoover - @shl - @dunn - @nateliason - @zsims - @niks & many more. If you're unreasonably ambitious and want to meet other builders, founders, and CEOs in New York. This is the place to be. Apply to attend below.

If you're a top performer, the hardest decision you have right now is which company to spend your next few years at. Picking the right upstart can be the difference between making $500,000 or $5,000,000 over the next few years. So I went into my network to identify the top early-stage CEOs and companies. These are the companies I'd want to work for if I were a top GTM, operations, or technical leader. And on August 24, we're hosting our next @TheShortlistNYC Founder Showcase, where six CEOs will tell you what they're building and why you should join them.

We’ve had hundreds of incredible founders + operators apply just a week after announcing. The former chief product officer at a $100B public company. Solopreneurs and creators with millions of followers. Ambitious operators at companies like @perplexity_ai @OpenAI & @stripe Our early bird sale ends on August 21. Excited to see you all there!