Eric Siu explains how hosting dinners and lunches with peers and senior people like CTOs and CEOs builds a memorable brand and career advantages. He shares how one AI dinner led to a larger AI lunch with multiple founders and executives, showing how a single introduction compounds into more opportunities.
I would encourage you, each and every one of you here, to set up dinners with other people that are at your level, similar to your level, maybe a few clicks above your level, and set up these dinners. About 2 months ago, I hosted an AI dinner with one of my buddies, and we had a couple CTOs there, a couple CEOs there. That led to someone else inviting me to an AI lunch, and that had about 40 people or so. And that lunch, you have people doing, you know, all these different businesses. Some are doing 8, 9, 10 figures or so. If you can become the connector, everyone's going to remember you. One thing's going to lead to another. You're going to build your network and nobody can ever take that network away from you. And that's how you're going to build defensibility with whatever that you decide to do in your career. And again, that brand that you build being that connector, that served me well.
