👋 I’m Justin. I run The SF Grind and The LA Grind, host the Ambition Podcast, and scout for Headline. I live in LA but spend a lot of time in San Francisco meeting founders, hosting gatherings, and enjoying the wonderful city.
Happy Thursday! Let me quickly tell you about one of our Ambition Summit speakers…
Nine years. 11 prototypes. Life savings invested.
$100M+ raised and 13,000 customers later...
They have the best robot vacuum on the planet.
Mehul Nariyawala is the co-founder of Matic Robots. Wired gave it a perfect 10/10.
He moved to the US from India at 15 and has gained a lifetime of startup experience since then.
That includes selling his company, Flutter, to Google for $40M.
Matic started with a 21-page problem deck, not a solution deck. Six years in stealth before launch. Assembled in California, and nothing leaves your home for the cloud.
I interviewed Mehul last year on one of my podcasts and in less than a month, on September 24th I get the follow-up, live, in front of 150 founders, operators, and investors in Santa Monica for the Ambition Summit.
Mehul was one of the very first speakers I reached out to when I had the idea to host an intimate startup summit and he said yes immediately.
I'm very grateful to him and I can't wait to chat with him at the Ambition Summit!
Ticket prices go up on September 9th. Limited seats available.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Justin