Eric Siu shares eight insights from a founders' dinner on building networks and leverage. Hosting dinners to connect people compounds ideas over time. Distribution is the new moat, AI speeds product cycles, and programmatic SEO drives real revenue.
The best leaders I know, they all share this one habit: hosting dinners. They bring together founders, creators, builders, and influencers of all kinds, not to impress, but just to share what's working and what's not. Here are 8 things I heard at the last founders dinner that I hosted. Number 1: At my last startup, I needed 30 engineers for what we're building right now. At my new one, I need just 2. Number 2: AI makes building products 10 times easier. Your product is no longer your moat. Distribution is. Number 3: The future belongs to people with agency. Not titles, not teams, just execution. 4, what used to take 6 weeks now just takes 5 days. The next goal is 2 days. Number 5, someone was able to close a $50,000 MRR, monthly recurring revenue deal from just one programmatic SEO page that they built within Cloud Code and Cursor. 6, institutions had the power and then it was companies that had the power. Now AI puts power back in the hands of individuals. Number 7, every enterprise will buy personal brand software the way they buy CRMs. Number 8, AI should handle what humans hate. So people can focus on what only people can do. Host more dinners and become the connector. When you bring great people together, the ideas compound and so does your network. Follow for more lessons on building leverage through people and systems.
