Where ambitious founders build enduring companies.
A home for technologists and founders who care deeply about what they’re building.
A home for technologists and founders who care deeply about what they’re building.
Eoghan McCabe
Co-Founder, CEO of intercom
Thoughtful partners with sharp insight and real founder alignment.
Eoghan McCabe
Co-Founder, CEO of intercom
Thoughtful partners with sharp insight and real founder alignment.
Eoghan McCabe
Co-Founder, CEO of intercom
Thoughtful partners with sharp insight and real founder alignment.
Everything founders need to build, early on
Be part of a real community
A space to ask honest questions, share unfinished ideas, and learn alongside people who are building seriously — without noise or performative advice.
Alex,
How do I keep my team motivated when we’re still figuring things out?
himanshu
We struggled with this early too. What helped was aligning personal goals with short, visible wins.
A better way to fundraise.
A better way to fundraise.
Turn every visit into a conversation, and every conversation into an opportunity. Capture leads, share products, and guide people to what matters most.
Brian Hallian Founder & Operator
Let’s build this together.
$750k
Backed
Funding secured through the community
Funding secured through the community
Find your first true believers
Find your first true believers
Meet collaborators and early teammates who want to build from day one — people aligned with your values, your vision, and the long road ahead.
Insight
Increased interest around your relationship advice, especially communication and boundaries
Potential collaborators
Founders who commit early build faster together.
Access your first real customers
Access your first real customers
Engage with real users inside the community to test assumptions, refine your product, and build what people actually want.
Insight / outcome
Users drop off after onboarding.
+50
Heard from multiple users
Signals learning, not victory
Takeaway
Early feedback often reveals what matters most.
Massage
Notion
Notion
Square
Spotify
Asana
Recordings
Recordings
Harvest
LaunchDarkly
Anthropic
Ramp
Website
Learn from people who’ve been there
Learn from people who’ve been there
Get perspective from founders and operators who understand the realities of building — the trade-offs, the doubts, and the decisions that matter early.
Be part of a real community
A space to ask honest questions, share unfinished ideas, and learn alongside people who are building seriously — without noise or performative advice.
Alex,
How do I keep my team motivated when we’re still figuring things out?
himanshu
We struggled with this early too. What helped was aligning personal goals with short, visible wins.
A better way to fundraise.
Turn every visit into a conversation, and every conversation into an opportunity. Capture leads, share products, and guide people to what matters most.
Brian Hallian Founder & Operator
Let’s build this together.
$750k
Backed
Funding secured through the community
Funding secured through the community
Find your first true believers
Meet collaborators and early teammates who want to build from day one — people aligned with your values, your vision, and the long road ahead.
Insight
Increased interest around your relationship advice, especially communication and boundaries
Potential collaborators
Founders who commit early build faster together.
Access your first real customers
Engage with real users inside the community to test assumptions, refine your product, and build what people actually want.
Insight / outcome
Users drop off after onboarding.
+50
Heard from multiple users
Signals learning, not victory
Takeaway
Early feedback often reveals what matters most.
Massage
Notion
Notion
Square
Spotify
Asana
Recordings
Recordings
Harvest
LaunchDarkly
Anthropic
Ramp
Website
Learn from people who’ve been there
Get perspective from founders and operators who understand the realities of building — the trade-offs, the doubts, and the decisions that matter early.
Be part of a real community
A space to ask honest questions, share unfinished ideas, and learn alongside people who are building seriously — without noise or performative advice.
Alex,
How do I keep my team motivated when we’re still figuring things out?
himanshu
We struggled with this early too. What helped was aligning personal goals with short, visible wins.
A better way to fundraise.
Turn every visit into a conversation, and every conversation into an opportunity. Capture leads, share products, and guide people to what matters most.
Brian Hallian Founder & Operator
Let’s build this together.
$750k
Backed
Funding secured through the community
Funding secured through the community
Find your first true believers
Meet collaborators and early teammates who want to build from day one — people aligned with your values, your vision, and the long road ahead.
Insight
Increased interest around your relationship advice, especially communication and boundaries
Potential collaborators
Founders who commit early build faster together.
Access your first real customers
Engage with real users inside the community to test assumptions, refine your product, and build what people actually want.
Insight / outcome
Users drop off after onboarding.
+50
Heard from multiple users
Signals learning, not victory
Takeaway
Early feedback often reveals what matters most.
Massage
Notion
Notion
Square
Spotify
Asana
Recordings
Recordings
Harvest
LaunchDarkly
Anthropic
Ramp
Website
Learn from people who’ve been there
Get perspective from founders and operators who understand the realities of building — the trade-offs, the doubts, and the decisions that matter early.
Karri Saarinen
Jorn van Dijk
Zeb Evans
Eoghan McCabe
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Linear
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality word-of-mouth.
Karri Saarinen
Jorn van Dijk
Zeb Evans
Eoghan McCabe
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Linear
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality word-of-mouth.
They bootstrapped an MVP in ~3 months:
Co-founder/CEO, Linear
a fast, keyboard-driven app for high-perf dev teams, prioritizing craft, simplicity, and taste over feature bloat. Validated via intuition + direct customer talks (OpenAI, Vercel early users), skipping traditional PM processes. Raised $52M but stayed profitable, small team-focused (no hypergrowth). Hit $1.25B valuation by focusing on quality word-of-mouth.
From Facebook Prototypes to $2B AI Website Empire
Co-founder/CEO, Linear
Jorn van Dijk and Koen Bok met at Sofa, their Dutch design studio acquired by Facebook in 2011. Frustrated by design-to-code handoffs, they left in 2013 to build Framer—a Mac app for interactive prototypes that shipped in 2014. Designers loved it, but engineers hated exporting code.
Chat Bubble Born in Bug Tracker Turns into AI Customer Service King
Co-founder/CEO, Linear
Eoghan McCabe's Dublin agency Contrast built Exceptional—a bug tracker acquired by Rackspace in 2011. A tiny chat widget they added for dev-customer talks exploded in demand, so Eoghan reunited with Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee, David Barrett to launch Intercom: real-time messaging for web businesses. Moved to SF, raised $50M fast, hit unicorn status.
From Near-Death Dropouts to $4B "Everything App" Empire
Co-founder/CEO, Clickup
After three near-death experiences—including a home invasion—Zeb Evans dropped out of Frustrated by fragmented tools (Asana, Trello, Slack), he teamed with IBM engineer Alex Yurkowski to bootstrap ClickUp in a San Diego house (2017)—an internal tool blending tasks, docs, chat, goals into one app.
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