The To Do List Summit

An invite-only, hands-on event on founder-led marketing—led by former Y Combinator & Andreessen Horowitz leaders.

Apply now → San Francisco 2026

The event

A focused, high-impact day to learn directly from experts who’ve been in the rooms where the strongest narratives, launches, and brand-building strategies were created.

Vital insight

Learn founder-led marketing directly from experts who’ve been in the rooms where the strongest narratives, launches, and brand-building strategies were created.

Hands-on work

Apply what you learn in real time to your own founder-led marketing, leaving with clear next steps across communications, social, events, and community.

Peer network

Strengthen connections with fellow founders throughout the day, creating accountability, unlocking cross-founder insights, and building your crucial support system.

A founder and company social media strategy and frameworks for reaching your target audience on social.

Our impact

Here’s what you’ll leave with:

A strategy for building and sustaining an active community.

A hosted event playbook, a guide to executive dinners, and conference tactics.

A clear company and founder narrative, a strong press pitch, and guidance on brand building without alienating your audience.

Your experts

Our team has advised thousands of founders across YC, a16z, and fast-growing startups. You get pattern recognition from people who’ve been in the rooms where today’s top companies were just getting started.

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Helping founders stand out.

  • "From viral content strategies to building communities and mastering distribution, the sessions were packed with insights for anyone scaling a product or brand."

    Stefan Cherkasov, Trace Founder | YC S25

  • "In a noisy content landscape, [their] reminders hit home. If there’s another one of these events in the future, I’d highly recommend it to any founder."

    Senthil Sundaram, Founder | Stealth

  • "This experience brought back memories of my short pre-COVID visit to San Francisco’s vibrant startup ecosystem — and once again reminded me why [the startup] community is so special."

    RIcky Routhu, SkyD AI Founder

  • "As a technical founder, I never knew where to start marketing-wise, especially given that everyone seems to have a different opinion on the subject."

    Sacha Servan-Schreiber, Tiniro Cofounder | YC X25

You built the product. Now make sure the world knows about it.

Apply now → San Francisco 2026

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