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Career growth is all about the company you keep: VC, Founder, Exec events this week

Connecting 10,000 AI founders, investors, and executives in Silicon Valley

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Mala Ramakrishnan
February 10, 2025

Success in your career is all about the people you surround yourself with. But how can you be intentional about the company you keep if you are continually held back by the your workplace? That paycheck holds you back as you work every single waking hour to just meet your company’s goals and your project deadlines.

How can you be in the company of entrepreneurs, VCs, peers, and mentors from other organizations who will give you your next leg up? Join us at Founders Creative, a volunteer run community by executives in Silicon Valley who elevate under represented people, ideas, and founders.

Founders Creative – 10000+ executives, founders & investors in Silicon Valley

We hold weekly events that bring together thought leaders across organizational boundaries, increasing your network, elevating your profile, and a chance to build your next idea.

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Upcoming Events Highlights

Venture Capital Events

Curious about what’s ahead for venture capital in 2025? Join the partners from Progressive Ventures to explore trends, growth opportunities, and strategic insights for the year ahead. Get a front-row seat to what’s next in the evolving market.

Making a Break into Venture Capital: Live Networking · | Feb 12 Wed, 2-3:30pm PST

Join Founders Creative for a live session on making a break into venture capital. Meet the partners at Progressive Ventures.

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Deep Dive Council sessions

Are you ready to find your tribe and increase your domain expertise, find a peer council, and advocacy that helps you land your next role?

AI Go-to-Market Salon · Lunch & Learn | Feb 21 12-1:30pm

In the new era of AI, the go-to-market function is being redefined on multiple levels. The traditional models for lead generation are being revolutionized by AI. Join other GTM leaders to explore how this impacts your career.

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AI Cybersecurity Forum · Feb 27 2-5pm | Live Networking

Join us for an engaging and informative event where cybersecurity experts, AI enthusiasts, and industry leaders come together to discuss the latest trends in AI & Cybersecurity

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Founder Focus Events

AI Innovators Forum: AI Agents in Action | Feb 19 6-9pm, Founder Pitches, Executive Panel

Are you ready to be inspired by the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs? Join us for an empowering afternoon at the Founders Pitch Event, where visionary technologists will showcase their groundbreaking ideas alongside startups.

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Blog of the week

If 2024 was the AI Playground for Product Leaders, 2025 is Walking a Tightrope | Anand Madhavan, Director of Product @Pure Storage

Three High-Stakes Balancing Acts for Product Leaders.

founderscreative.substack.com/p/if-2024-was-the-ai-playground-for

  • Balancing experimentation and delivering business value using AI

  • Balancing the risks vs. rewards of Generative AI

  • Balancing speed of execution while keeping up with AI advancements


    Featured below: Chief Product Officer Fireside Chat: Abhijit Kakhandiki with Mala Ramakrishnan

Call for Speakers!

We host regular in person events in SF Bay Area. Our AI Innovators Forum is monthly signature event featuring are looking to elevate your profile on our stage

Founder Pitches

Are you a founder looking to elevate your company and connect with operators, investors, and prospective customers? Please submit your information here to be featured at our AI Innovators Forum for a founder pitch: https://forms.gle/vgZG47nxmqzMC3LUA

High-Tech Executive Panels

Are you trying to build your voice and platform? How about being featured on a Founders Creative Panel for your expertise?
Please submit your information here: https://forms.gle/TvpbedkK6gSzRGHEA

AI Product Leadership Track

Are you in the product management leadership track looking to be part of a community of fellow passionate product leaders? We are a group of over a 100 product management executives in Silicon Valley who meet regularly staying up to speed on innovation and networking.

Join our leadership track! Includes our monthly salons and 20% off our bi-annual AI Product Management Summit.

Donation $600/year (introductory offer): https://buy.stripe.com/7sI14H8cdaow7NS001/

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Sponsors this week

TheAgentic

The AI Agent Infrastructure Company. We believe that the future of AI needs to be owned and driven by thousands of innovative AI founders and not big tech. At TheAgentic we are out to change that. TheAgentic provides a complete suite of agent infrastructure— reasoning LLMs, a digital worker framework, and web automation—enabling startups, AI founders and SaaS companies to build, deploy and scale with ease, and at the lowest possible cost.

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