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Based on post-event surveys from 1,400+ founders · 2024–2025
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How founders find advice today.
And why it's costing them.
Every column to the left is a real thing you've tried. The last one is what Convene replaces them with.
Twitter Threads
Unvetted · Noisy
Paid Masterminds
$15K+ · Slow
Cold LinkedIn DMs
2% response rate
Convene
Curated · Real · On-Demand
Speaker Vetting
Q&A Quality
Cost
Speed of Value
Replays & Search
Investor Access
Signal-to-Noise
Operators who've
actually been in the room.
Not influencers. Not thought leaders. Founders and investors with specific outcomes and real numbers.
Priya Nair
Partner · Benchmark Capital
$1.2B
Portfolio exits
4.9
Avg. rating
Marcus Webb
Sequoia Capital
18 Seed investments
Sofia Chen
Linear (fmr. Figma)
3× Product pivots that worked
Sessions Held
47
Since 2023
Founder Alumni
1,400+
Across 28 cities
What they said
after the lights came up.
Real quotes from the Convene Slack channel, collected post-session. Unedited.
Yemi Adeyemi
Arca Health (Seed, $2.1M)
“I came in with 2 investor meetings booked. I left with 7 intros. No pitch deck needed — the Q&A format did the work.”
Lena Bauer
Stackflow (Series A, $8M)
“The investor on stage said exactly what they'd never put in a blog post. That 90 minutes changed how I position our Series A.”
David Park
Meridian Labs
“I'd spent $14K on a mastermind and learned less than I did in one Convene session. The moderator actually asked the hard questions.”
Aisha Mohammed
Veridian Systems (Seed)
“My VP of Engineering was in the audience. We both walked out with the same framework. That alignment alone was worth three months of internal debate.”
Raj Krishnaswamy
Pulsedata (Pre-Seed)
“Replays are searchable by topic. I went back to the PMF session three times while we were deciding whether to pivot. It was like having a board member on call.”
Claire Dubois
FirstMark Capital
“The 'no softballs' rule is real. The founder on stage got asked about a failed pivot in front of 300 people. Her answer taught me more than any case study.”
Yemi Adeyemi
Arca Health (Seed, $2.1M)
“I came in with 2 investor meetings booked. I left with 7 intros. No pitch deck needed — the Q&A format did the work.”
Lena Bauer
Stackflow (Series A, $8M)
“The investor on stage said exactly what they'd never put in a blog post. That 90 minutes changed how I position our Series A.”
David Park
Meridian Labs
“I'd spent $14K on a mastermind and learned less than I did in one Convene session. The moderator actually asked the hard questions.”
Aisha Mohammed
Veridian Systems (Seed)
“My VP of Engineering was in the audience. We both walked out with the same framework. That alignment alone was worth three months of internal debate.”
Raj Krishnaswamy
Pulsedata (Pre-Seed)
“Replays are searchable by topic. I went back to the PMF session three times while we were deciding whether to pivot. It was like having a board member on call.”
Claire Dubois
FirstMark Capital
“The 'no softballs' rule is real. The founder on stage got asked about a failed pivot in front of 300 people. Her answer taught me more than any case study.”
Yemi Adeyemi
Co-founder & CEO · Arca Health (Seed, $2.1M)
“I came in with 2 investor meetings booked. I left with 7 intros. No pitch deck needed — the Q&A format did the work.”
Lena Bauer
Founder · Stackflow (Series A, $8M)
“The investor on stage said exactly what they'd never put in a blog post. That 90 minutes changed how I position our Series A.”
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