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Andrew's Tech Events (Feb 3, 2025)

Andrew's Tech Events (Feb 3, 2025)

🍽️ Join our upcoming founder dinner, sauna club or secret party in Austin!

Andrew Yeung
February 03, 2025

👋 Hi, friend!

Welcome to Issue #3 of our new 2025 events newsletter. After hosting over 100 events last year, we’re back with more programming, more events, and more fun.

Hang tight while we refine this newsletter. Today, we’re launching 🏅New York’s Most Esteemed🏅 (apply here), with a feature on a new community member each month!

📅 Upcoming Events 📅

February 12 | 🍽️ Junto Founder Dinner (NYC)

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

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. Apply here.

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. Apply here.

February 27 | 💸 Fundraising for Startups: Everything Founders Need to Know About Raising Capital (Virtual)

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. Sign up here.

February 28 | 🍳 Founder Breakfast Club (NYC)

A curated breakfast (on us) with 30 other pre-seed and seed-stage founders. RSVP here.

March 8-11 | 🏠 Lumos House in Austin

Still finalizing programming and taking sponsors (Fill this out)

March 12 | 🤫 Secret Austin Garden Party

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! RSVP here.

March 25 | 🍽️ Junto Founder Dinner

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

May 16 | 🎟️ The OOO Summit 2025 (NYC)

Last year we brought 500 founders and entrepreneurs together to hear from speakers like Sam Parr, Alex Lieberman, Ankur Nagpal, and the founders of companies like Loom and Vercel). We’re reimagining OOO for 2025—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.

This Week’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 🌊 ARTECHOUSE: SUBMERGE

If you haven’t heard of ARTECHOUSE, it’s a hidden gem. Their new project is turning the old Chelsea Market boiler room into a mind-blowing digital art space, with immersive exhibits that change throughout the year. Think AI-powered visuals, stunning 3D dreamscapes, and a 270-degree, ultra-HD setup that pulls you right into the experience—definitely not your average art gallery.

Check it out.

#2 🖼️ UNIQLO Friday Nights at MoMA

MoMA used to be my default spot when I had absolutely nothing else to do. It’s wild how museums in NYC are often dismissed as “tourist attractions” when they’re actually some of the most remarkable landmarks in the country. First Friday of each month is free.

Check it out.

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

#3 🫧 The Lush Spa at Lexington Ave

This looks like the only place in NYC where you can get peace and quiet. Might make a good gift for valentines?