Monthly CEO Dinners · Denver, Colorado
Monthly dinners for Colorado startup CEOs.
Every attendee is vetted. No service providers, no job-seekers. CEOs are peers, not products. One room, 40 CEOs, one evening a month.
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630+vetted members
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This Month’s Dinner
Stop Pitching Like Shit
Thursday, June 4, 2026· 6:00 PM
ID345 · 3960 High St, Denver, CO 80205
Startup CEOs face a fundamental challenge -- we are so focused on building the thing, that when people ask us what our company does, we tell them about the thing. And that is completely, truly, 100% the wrong thing to do. If you tell someone your startup uses AI to help athletes boost efficiency gains between training sessions, you better hope that person is an athlete who has struggled with efficiency gains. Otherwise, they don't give a shit and you've just lost the attention of a potential investor/employee/journalist/advocate. It's even the wrong way to pitch customers. Communicating the vision is the single most-important responsibility of the CEO and most of us suck at it. The vision is the "why" that transcends domain knowledge and evokes curiosity in anyone. If you tell someone that athletes as a market spend tens of billions of dollars every year to improve and most of that money is wasted... holy crap, that person probably has some questions! Now you're having a conversation! You might, eventually, even talk about the "how". Our June dinner is the solution: everyone intros their company as usual at 6:30. During dinner, small groups provide direct feedback to one another about what resonated and what left them bored AF. And during the main event, brave souls will present their revised two-to-four-sentence intros to the Thunderview team for feedback and further improvement in front of the entire community. If you've ever told someone what your company does and wondered why they weren't as lit up as you are, this dinner is for you.
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Apply For Jun 4
40 seats. Closes when full.
Why CEOs keep coming back.
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A room that gets it
Every attendee is vetted. No service providers, no job-seekers. CEOs are peers, not products. One room, 40 CEOs, one evening a month.
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Structured to connect
Not a mixer. Before each dinner, everyone gets the full list of attendees and their asks. Introductions are built in. There’s always a speaker. The right conversations happen by design.
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More than a dinner
Between events, members keep showing up — making intros, answering questions, helping each other. You’re not attending an event. You’re joining a community.
Scenes from the last three years.
“We start companies because we can’t help ourselves. The smart founders find a room full of people who are just as crazy and want to help.”
— Eric Marcoullier, Founding Director