Andrew's Tech Events (Feb 17, 2025)

🍽️ Join our upcoming founder dinners, poker club, or Lumos House in Austin!

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Andrew Yeung
February 17, 2025

👋 Hi, friend!

Welcome to Issue #4 of our new 2025 events newsletter. After hosting over 100 events last year, we’re back with more programming, more events, and more fun.

In February, we launched 🏅New York’s Most Esteemed🏅 (apply here), with a feature on a new community member each month!

📅 Upcoming Events 📅

February 18 | 🍽️ Future of AI Dinner (Hosted by Andrew Yeung & Rho) [FULL]

Join us for an intimate evening of conversation and connection as we bring together 10 NYC founders to explore the future of AI.​

February 19 | 🧖 founder sauna club (NYC)

A unique experience for andrew and rho's founder community, taking place in an otherworldly sauna and ice bath space. Come unwind, and be yourself with others.

February 24 | 🍽️ Founder Poker Club (by Andrew Yeung x Rho)

Join us for our first Founder Poker Club, a private poker night bringing together top founders for an evening of competition, conversation, and connection. Beginners welcome!

​February 25 | 🍽️ Junto Founder Dinner (NYC)

Meet fellow Seed to Series B CEOs or entrepreneurs at the 7-figure ARR mark. Dinner is on us.

Join our upcoming event for founders, investors, and tech professionals shaping the future with the Co-founder of Venmo. Hosted at an iconic, massive venue in the heart of Manhattan, this tech party will be one for the books. ​Co-hosted by Andrew Yeung, Iqram Magdon-Ismail (Venmo and Jelly Jelly), and our friends at Notion.

​Expect an evening of connection, new conversations, bold ideas, and a party that sets the tone for 2025 in tech. Iqram will also be making the debut for his brand new startup, Jelly Jelly during this event. RSVP here.

A webinar I’m hosting with fundraising and early-stage finance expert, Alyona Mysko, who has helped dozens of startups secure funding from VCs like a16z and Seqouia, and managed over $250M in P&L.

February 28 | 🍳 Founder Breakfast Club (NYC)

A curated breakfast (on us) with 30 other pre-seed and seed-stage founders, co-hosted with Rho.

March 8-11 | 🏠 Lumos House (Austin)

​I'm bringing together founders, investors, and friends in tech at a stunning outdoor garden and rooftop in the heart of Austin—there will be amazing people attending from all over the world!

March 21 | 🍳 Founder Breakfast Club (NYC)

A curated breakfast (on us) with 30 other pre-seed and seed-stage founders, co-hosted with Rho.

March 25 | 🍽️ Junto Founder Dinner (NYC)

Meet fellow Seed to Series B CEOs or entrepreneurs at the 7-figure ARR mark. Dinner is on us.

April 15 | 🍽️ Junto Founder Dinner (NYC)

Meet fellow Seed to Series B CEOs or entrepreneurs at the 7-figure ARR mark. Dinner is on us.

April 23 | 🍳 Founder Breakfast Club (NYC)

A curated breakfast (on us) with 30 other pre-seed and seed-stage founders, co-hosted with Rho.

May 16 | 🎟️ The OOO Summit 2025 (NYC)

The flagship founder, entrepreneurship, and creator conference in NYC. Last year, we invited founders of companies like Morning Brew, Vercel, Loom, The Hustle, and My First Million to share their playbook with our community.

This year we’re reimagining The OOO Summit—to make it even bigger and better. Get $100 off early bird tickets here for a limited time with code “WEREBACK”.

If you’d like to learn about sponsorships, fill this out.

Btw, if you’re interested in sponsoring an event to get in front of our community of 40,000+ founders, investors, and tech professionals, please fill this out.

🏅 New York’s Most Esteemed🏅

What makes someone New York’s Most Esteemed? Vision, grit, and a relentless drive to make something meaningful. Every month, we’ll feature an extraordinary person in the tech and business community who’s shaping the future of New York and beyond.

From founders building the next big thing to investors backing game-changing ideas, these are the faces to watch in New York’s tech ecosystem.

February’s Most Esteemed is: Jesse Warren!

Jesse Warren is the Co-Founder of Socially Inept (Tech Roast Show).

It’s a show where comedians take hilarious jabs at techies—and if you work in tech, you’ve probably heard of them. I got a firsthand taste when my mixers and I were roasted for two hours straight on their podcast (airing soon, I think?). Jesse and the Tech Roast Show just moved to NYC, so don’t be surprised if he makes an appearance at one of my events. Check out his bio below!

His brag:

In addition to selling tens of thousands of tickets in the US each year, we sold over 10,000 tickets on our recent tour of India! Pretty wild to see something you build blossom in a market you never expected to hit.

What he can help others with:

I grew up never having even dabbled in the arts. I only ever did software until I was 25 and it felt super weird trying comedy without any background in performance. But I've found that my engineering/entrepreneurial background helped me immensely in growing as a performer and anyone in tech curious about trying something performative can leverage their background to develop much faster than usual. If this is at all interesting I can give some tips on where to start!

His favorite local establishment in NYC:

Othership | Immersive Sauna + Ice Bath

Othership is a space for transformation. Explore the sauna to sweat, ice baths to drop-in and a commons to be yourself with others. Embark on a shared journey to regulate yourself and your emotions, in a world that can’t be regulated, and expect to shift your state in more ways than one.

www.othership.us

His best piece of advice:

Write down every idea you ever have. Make the barrier to writing it frictionless so you don't think twice (I have an Apple Watch and just tell Siri to save it in Evernote). Once a week go through these and save the good ones.

Wanna meet Jesse? Connect with him here.

🗽 Fresh Finds 🗽

#1 🍽️ The View

The View just reopened. It's this bizarre revolving restaurant and lounge atop the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group recently revamped it, so now you can enjoy prime rib and seafood towers while taking in 360-degree views of the city. There’s live music every night, and the restaurant even rotates, giving you a 360-degree view of the city. I came here last night for Valentine’s!

#2 💃 Love Struck

If Cirque du Soleil had a wild, seductive alter ego, Airotic Cirque Soirée would be it. Expect aerial acrobatics combined with burlesque energy.

P.S. check out this legendary TED talk by my friend Nick Gray called “How I learned to stop hating and love musuems”. 

#3 🍸 Monsieur

Monsieur is a French-inspired speakeasy that combines old-world elegance with a playful sense of late-night vibes. Expect live jazz, candlelit corners, and a solid cocktail (and mocktail) menu, it’s the kind of spot that feels like a secret…until you realize everyone cool already knows about it.

I’m curious—what did you think of today’s edition? Hit ‘reply’ and share your feedback—I’d love to hear it!

Andrew Yeung 🤘

Andrew is the Founder, CEO of Fibe and an investment partner at Next Wave NYC, an early-stage investment fund based out of New York. He has hosted over 200 events for 40,000+ entrepreneurs, investors, and tech professionals. Business Insider dubbed him“The Gatsby of Silicon Alley” and he has been featured on Bloomberg, Fast Company, Axios, Morning Brew, and AdAge.