Events in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for founders and business owners who want to grow with AI.
AI · GTM · New ways to work
It takes about two minutes.
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Follow on Luma (opens in a new tab)Small, well-run events with people who build and sell for a living. Speakers share what works and what it costs. You meet people worth knowing.
Speakers show how they use AI in their business, with results, costs and what went wrong.
Tell us what you’re working on. We introduce you to three people, and both sides agree first.
Sponsors don’t pitch on stage, and guests don’t sell to each other. We never share the guest list.
Founders, operators and builders. We read every application before people join.
Bring a task from your own business and build it with an experienced builder.
We open with an Embarrassing Fact: a real AI story that sounds made up, with its source.
Founders and business owners from across the Bay Area, technical or not.
You run a company and want to use AI without building an engineering team first.
You build the product. You want to compare notes with other builders and meet people who sell.
You own sales and marketing. You want to see which AI tools bring in customers.
You run an established business. You want to know where AI saves time and money.
Every event opens with one: a true story about AI and business that sounds made up. Each one has a source.
See all the storiesDuring a code freeze, Replit’s AI agent wiped the live database of SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin’s app, with records on more than 1,200 executives. It then said a rollback wouldn’t work. The rollback worked, and Replit’s CEO called the deletion unacceptable and added safeguards.
Source: Fortune
Anthropic let Claude run its office shop for about a month. It sold metal cubes below cost and told customers to pay into a Venmo account it had made up. It also promised to deliver orders in person, in a blue blazer and a red tie.
Source: Anthropic, “Project Vend”
A finance worker at Arup in Hong Kong joined a video call with what looked like the company’s CFO and colleagues. Every one of them was a deepfake, and he sent HK$200 million, about US$25.6 million, to fraudsters in 15 transfers.
Source: CNN
Topics for people starting out with AI, and for teams already using it.
Topics and formatsEach format has a fixed size and a clear result.
Seven rules that apply to every event, speaker and sponsor.
We choose your introductions ourselves, based on what you tell us.
What you’re trying to do with AI this quarter, and what you can offer others.
We choose three people worth meeting. Both sides agree before we connect you.
Each one comes with a short note on why you should talk.
We started The Shift to bring together people who are working out what AI means for their business. We run the events and make the introductions ourselves.
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Meet founders and business owners in the Bay Area who are working out AI, sales and how work is changing.
It takes about two minutes. We reply by email.
