👋 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 Tuesday! The Ambition Summit is on September 24th at a private venue in Santa Monica. 150 founders, operators, and investors.
Ticket prices go up $100 at midnight tonight.
Here's a sample of who's already in the room:
A founding partner at a hardtech VC fund with a $300M Fund I, now raising Fund II, who was previously CFO of a company that sold to Amazon and scaled from $70M to $3B+ in revenue
A partner at one of Australia's leading VC funds, with portfolio companies like Canva, who relocates to LA every year to invest here
An investor at an LA firm writing $1M-$3M checks into pre-seed and seed companies
A founder who raised $90M+ building a connected fitness company, backed by Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather
A founder who just raised a $10.5M seed to build the trust layer for the age of AI
A founder backed by Tiger Global and Jay-Z's Marcy Venture Partners, now building agentic marketing tools for TikTok, Instagram, and Reddit
A former founder whose crowdfunding platform helped families raise $200M+, now running an early-stage VC fund
A founder who bootstrapped a B2B community and conference business to $2.2M in revenue
A physician-founder building a performance medicine platform for high performers
And that's just a small sample.
They'll be joined by our speakers: Shivani Siroya (Tala), Dee Murthy (Ghost), Dara Ladjevardian (Delphi), Mehul Nariyawala (Matic), Jessica Chang (Upwards), Jo Phillips (Payabli), and Shamin Walsh (BAM Ventures).
Ticket prices go up on September 9th. Limited seats available.
Hope to see you there!
Best,
Justin