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Rooms for stories that are still being figured out.

Our events are built for people who want lived experience over polished advice, honest rooms over performance panels, and stories that stay useful after the evening ends.

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Upcoming Event

Between Rounds

Stories from the messy middle: a founder-series room for people who are growing, but not cleanly.

Founder Series

Between Rounds

Building real momentum without making chaos the operating system.

The numbers might be moving, but the business feels noisy: constant firefighting, decision fatigue, hero-dependency, slipping standards, and a founder who cannot switch off.

Date
22 July 2026
Venue
To be announced
Format
90-120 minutes | 3-4 founder speakers
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What we will sit with

Topics in the room

  • The messy middle
  • When the founder becomes the bottleneck
  • Scale without selling your soul

For founder-led businesses, operators, and leaders who value sharp moderation, practical truths, and a room that does not sell hype.

Speakers

Speakers to be announced soon.

We are curating founders and operators who can speak honestly about growth, pressure, bottlenecks, systems, and the messy middle of building.

Founder Series

Know someone who should be in this room?

Nominate a founder, operator, or builder with a story from the in-between: not the launch, not the victory lap, but the stretch where growth got real.

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Past Events

The Beta Series

Small rooms, honest stories, and the moments we usually rush past.

The Beta Series stage before the first edition began. A speaker on stage at the first Beta Series. Speakers and organisers with The Beta Series sign.

Edition 1 | Dec 10 | Sabha, BLR

The first attempt

We opened with stories about ambition, isolation, and the strange aftertaste of success.

  • The Cost of Chasing the Wrong Thing - Shyju Varkey
  • The Myth of Doing It Alone - Swetha Subbaiah and Tanvi Hans
  • Success That Felt Like Failure - AB Gupta
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Panel conversation at The Beta Series Edition 2. Speaker on stage at The Beta Series Edition 2. The Beta Series Edition 2 speakers and community photo.

Edition 2 | Mar 4 | Sabha, BLR

The second attempt

Edition 2 stayed with invisible progress, the cost of endurance, and the parts of growth no one warned us about.

  • Not All Progress Looks Like a Win - Mithila Ramani
  • The Price We Pay to Keep Going - Sanjana Madappa
  • The Parts of Growth We Did Not See Coming - Sahar Mansoor & Sarah Nicole Edwards
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