Make money doing the work you believe in
Today we’re announcing Build—a dinner series and community for experienced founders, technologists, and operators who are figuring out what they want to build next—or who are open to joining something meaningful at the very beginning.
It’s not an accelerator or a structured program. There’s no curriculum, no demo day, no prescribed outcome.
Instead, we focus on one thing: creating small, repeatable environments where people with ambition, ability, and similar timing spend enough time together that trust compounds, decisions get easier, and ambition gets higher.
We’ve been quietly running dinners and retreats for a while, and the magic is real.
Two years ago, Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas met at an a16z retreat and then co-founded Decagon to help companies deliver exceptional customer support at scale. Now, Decagon is a leader in conversational AI for customer experience, powering brands like Eventbrite, Rippling, Vanta, and ClassPass - with a $1.5B valuation and $231M in total funding.
Build is our way of formalizing what we’ve learned really works, and cracking the door open for more great people.
Read more: a16z.news/p/introducing…
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