Founders RoundTable: The Unfiltered Reality of Building

Join us this week for the Founders Roundtable, an intimate, off-the-record conversation for active builders navigating the realities of company building right now. We’re creating space to step past surface-level optimism and talk honestly about what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s changing beneath the headlines.

Together, we’ll dig into the mechanics of growth in a tighter capital environment, the real tradeoffs founders are making day-to-day, and how agentic technology is actually being used, or intentionally avoided, inside growing companies. Whether you’re preparing for your first raise or scaling through Series A, this is a peer-level discussion grounded in lived experience, not theory.

What we’ll unpack:

• The Founder’s Dilemma: balancing deep work with the constant pull of leadership
• Agentic Workflows: how founders are actually using AI to gain leverage in 2026
• STL Ecosystem Check-In: what’s working, what’s missing, and where builders need more support

Bring your questions, recent wins, and current bottlenecks. Expect candor, nuance, and practical insight. No fluff, just the craft of building, shared with people who are in it with you.