Dinners for founders

Founders Networking Dinners

Twelve people sit down. You will have spoken to all of them by the time the plates are cleared.

That is the whole idea, and it is the opposite of the evenings most founders have quietly stopped going to. No badges. Nobody pitching from a stage. Not a room of two hundred where you meet three people and remember one. Ten seats, one host and one guest of honour, at a single table.

Everyone there is a founder or an operator, because we check. No recruiters working the room, nobody selling you anything. Which means you can talk about what is actually happening in your business rather than the version you give at conferences.

The guest of honour eats with you rather than speaking at you. They sit at the table and take questions between courses, so you get to ask the thing you would never put your hand up for in a hall.

And it happens again. The same faces come back, so the people you meet in October are people you already know by January. That is the part that compounds, and it is why a small table beats a big room.