Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Francisco voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
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You have been running the idea past AI. AI has never once told you it would not work. Tonight you get a room that will.
Five founders, five minutes each, in San Francisco. You take a table on a topic the room voted for, the stage is short enough to be honest, and the floor stays open for an hour after it.
A smaller founder gathering for a focused conversation around the table.
Eight founders at the same stage around one table, by application after your first evening with us.
Why it is worth itA working table, not a talk. You get to it by coming to the first room.
Times in America/Los_Angeles
Name sticker on, then the table closest to what you are building. You stay for the hour.
Five minutes each, no slides read out loud, then questions from the room.
The stage is done and the floor stays open.
Frequently asked
No. Roughly half the room comes to work on other people's problems and figure out what they want to join. Bring a professional problem instead — it works the same way.
Yes. After booking you'll get a three-minute form in our Telegram Mini App: your problem in one line, some context, and how long it's been unresolved. Only submitted problems make the board and the vote. You can edit it until two days before.
No. There's no stage, no slides and no pitching. Forty seconds each at the start is the only time anyone speaks to the whole room.
There's a second vote halfway through - the problems that didn't make the first round get their turn. And at the end the host asks who's still unresolved and finds you a contact from the room by name.
At the end you mark the people you'd work with again. If it's mutual, we connect you within 48 hours through the Ascent Valley Mini App. We never share your contact with someone who didn't get your yes.
Especially then. Tell the host at check-in and you'll be seated at a table where you'll be introduced properly.
A Mini App: verified profiles of the room, saved contacts and mutual matches after the event. Opens inside Telegram, no new account.
Rick & Roxy's · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Francisco voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
Rick & Roxy's · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Francisco voted for, and an open hour after the stage.
Rick & Roxy's · 🇺🇸 San Francisco
Five founders, five minutes each, then questions from the room. Tables on topics San Francisco voted for, and an open hour after the stage.