Austin. Monthly. One hundred people.
One hundred accomplished, generous people in a room for two hours on a Thursday evening. No pitches, no panels, no agenda.
Leave energized, not obligated.
Why it exists
Most networking asks you to work a room full of strangers and hope.
The hard part was never meeting people. It is not knowing who is worth interrupting, and spending the evening making that calculation instead of having a conversation.
We do that part first. Everyone in the room was put forward by someone who knows them.
So talk to whoever you end up next to. The filtering already happened.
What a Thursday looks like
Three weeks out
A text with the date and the part of town. Enough to hold the evening.
Monday at 8am
A text with a link. One tap claims your seat. They go fast, and when they are gone they are gone.
Thursday at noon
A text with the address.
Thursday, 5 to 7
You show up.
No app. No account. No password to forget. Everything happens by text.
The hundred dollars
$100
Claiming a seat places a $100 hold on your card. It is not a charge and not a ticket.
Show up and the hold is released. You never pay anything.
Cancel any time up to noon the day before and it disappears, no explanation asked for. Plans change and that is fine.
Say nothing and don't come, and we keep it.
The money is not the point. There are a hundred seats. An empty chair is one more person who wanted the room and didn't get in.
The room
Technology, AI, defense tech, finance, real estate, healthcare, higher education, law, government, venture, private equity.
Not a hundred people from the same industry. The conversation worth having is usually with someone whose work has nothing to do with yours, which is exactly the person you would never have been introduced to.
You might be standing next to a CEO, a university leader, a commercial real estate investor, someone three months into building something. You don't need to know which before you start talking.
How people get in
Someone put your name forward. That is the only way in.
Everyone who attends gets one nomination a year, to use whenever they meet someone who belongs in the room.
There is no form and no application.
The rules
A hundred people. Invitation only. No plus ones. No transfers.
Nobody in the room is selling anything, and that includes us.