In this brief you’ll find:

San Francisco Founder Dinner | June 24, SF
We’re hosting a small X26 dinner for a handful of established xMcKinsey founders in San Francisco. The dinner will be hosted by Zamir Akimbekov, founder of Cayu Technologies and one of the sharper AI minds to come out of the McKinsey and C3.ai world.
Status: Registration open
Building with AI as a Non-Technical Founder | June 30, Online
A 60-minute, practical session on what's actually possible when non-technical founders build with AI tools – led by Michael Eichert (ex-McKinsey, HBS), who's been doing exactly that.
Status: Registration open
Madrid Founder Dinner | July 9, Madrid
X26 is hosting a small, invitation-only dinner for a select group of founders in Madrid by Alberto Gascón, co-founder and CTO of Friday Systems, an AI and robotics company automating logistics at the edge of what's technically possible.
Status: Registration open
Sales and Product - Market Fit | July 10, Online
Rob Snyder is a serial entrepreneur and author of the newly released The Power of Pull, He's joining X26 for a conversation on sales, traction, and what the standard playbooks consistently get wrong. Bring a real call to the table. Submit a recording or transcript of an actual sales call ahead of the session, and Rob will unpack it live.
Status: Registration open
San Francisco Founder Dinner | August 26, San Francisco
We’re hosting a small X26 dinner for a handful of established xMcKinsey founders in San Francisco. The dinner will be hosted by Zain Shaikh who is part of the founding team at OpenCoreOS, an AI-native fintech reimagining core banking for large financial institutions, where he leads growth across sales, marketing, partnerships, and deployment.
Status: Registration open
Founder Retreat | August 9-13, Schliersee, Germany
Our four-day retreat is designed for a carefully selected group of founders. It works beneath the surface – a profound update of the inner operating system that drives everything else. Led by Alexander Volz (xMcKinsey, founder coach) and Dr. Jens Riese (former Senior Partner McKinsey, therapist).
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Love,
The X26 team.
