About Thunderview.
Thunderview CEO Dinners is a monthly dinner in Denver for startup CEOs. Each dinner is capped at 40 people. The format runs three hours: introductions where each attendee brings a non-investment Ask, dinner where attendees can dive deep into business issues, and a main presentation. The point is to give CEOs a room of peers who aren't their employees, board, or co-founders — people who can offer an unbiased outside perspective on the problems they're carrying.
“Startup CEO” is one of the greatest jobs out there. You have the opportunity to make an impact, you face new challenges on a daily basis, you get to test your vision of the world, for real money, in the market.
It’s also one of the loneliest jobs to have. There’s a mountain of stress that you can’t share with your employees, board or significant other. Even if you have co-founders, sometimes you just need to move out of your bubble and get an unbiased point of view.
Thunderview CEO Dinners is a monthly dinner founded to introduce a diverse set of CEOs — across backgrounds, stages and markets — to one another to share their experiences and receive outside perspectives.
Each dinner is capped at 40 participants — a mix of early-stage, scaling, exited and bootstrapping CEOs, plus a few VCs to provide capital’s point of view, with a strong focus on representation for traditionally underrepresented founders. We help each other, celebrate wins and work together to solve hard problems.
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First Thursday of every month. In case you can’t make the next dinner, please sign up for the first one that works with your schedule.
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We value CEOs from diverse backgrounds and helpful members of the community.
In practice this means the following:
- Priority invites go to historically underrepresented CEOs. We backfill with traditionally represented CEOs.
- Once you’ve attended, we ask that you do two things to secure an invite to a future dinner — help someone with an Ask and refer a new CEO to the group.