Two stories from the community this week. The speakeasy social sold out in under a week. T | he invite went out last Thursday. By the end of the weekend, every seat was claimed and we were closing applications. |
Thank you to every founder who applied. The room is full, and it's going to be a good one. People building seriously across AI, CPG, and wellness, with traction on their products and a shared commitment to how they're living while they build. | | "The room was full of people building at the level we wanted to be building at. That's rare." |
Founders House is a work and wellness club. A wellness community, deep work during the day, and the kind of founder community you actually want to be around at night. Membership applications are open, and founding member pricing locks in now for the first cohort. Lock in the founding member rate. Founding pricing is only available before we open. It's the best rate we'll ever offer, and it comes with automatic access to every event. |
The check mark matters more than the check. Three of our members are in the process of an acquisition or acqui-hire right now. The money isn't the biggest part of what they're weighing. The biggest thing you walk away with after an exit isn't necessarily the check. It's the check mark. "Exited founder" next to your name changes everything downstream. Raising your next round gets 10x easier. Intros land differently. Every future conversation starts one level higher than the last one did. |
You earn a permanent piece of credibility you cannot buy, hack, or shortcut. Of course, there's a lot that goes into the call. The number. The team. The earn-out. The role post-close. What you actually want to be doing for the next four years. All of it matters. | | "Don't underweight the thing that stays with you long after the wire clears. Your name, with a validated outcome attached to it." |
You can't think clearly about a decision this big in a vacuum. The founders we've watched navigate this well all have one thing in common. They're surrounded by people who've already been through it, or who are in it with them right now. The real nuance. How to read the term sheet, how to negotiate the earn-out, when to walk, how to think about the post-close year. It only shows up in rooms with people who've lived it. If you're heading into one of these conversations, go find those rooms. Talk soon, Damian Co-Founder, Founders House Find your room at Founders House. Manhattan's first work and wellness club for founders. Founding member rates lock in now for the first cohort. |
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