Founders Live Turns 11!

Nick Hughes addresses the crowd at our Founders Live Athletes event during Super Bowl LIX week in New Orleans, February 6, 2025.

Happy Birthday to us!

We started 11 years ago on March 28, 2014.

To this day, we’re still seeking to serve early-stage founders by offering discoverability, community, inspiration, and access to the resources and capital they need to be successful.

We’re still driven by our Core Values, even as we’ve added one more since then.

And Nick still speaks on stages around the world, bringing his message to founders.

We’re not going anywhere either. In fact we’ve barely begun. There’s so much more ahead that we can’t wait to share in 2025 alone - but even beyond that.

Just know that we are so glad you are here with us, and we intend to bring you even more while staying true to ourselves along the way.

Fun note

During our most recent Founders Live Athletes event in New Orleans this past February, Luis snapped the above photo of Nick on stage in nearly the identical position as the photo on the screen behind him that was taken at the very first Founders Live ever, known then as Feature Friday.

Just like Nick, we’re going to keep doing this for a long time!

Open The Door

We are here because of the generous actions of our community inviting others to participate, whether as an attendee, presenting founder, or city leader, demonstrating our third Core Value: Open The Door.

It is because of these actions that we created our new Open The Door page to make it easy for anyone to Open The Door for someone new to experience Founders Live.

Take a moment to do something great for someone else today and Open The Door for them.

Let’s bring Founders Live to even more people and even more cities!

Thank you

Thanks again to everyone that’s been part of the journey so far.

Stay close and watch what happens next!