May 8 - 9, 2024

Canyon Ranch
Woodside, California

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SPERO VENTURES

Join our mission-driven founders

Once a year, Spero brings together our portfolio of mission-driven founders/CEOs for two days of learning, networking and community support. This year, we’ll enjoy a retreat-like environment just outside of the city surrounded by beautiful redwoods. We believe that some time with your peers, with fresh air, in nature will be good for your perspective and for your business.

This year’s content will cover a wide range of tactical topics from bolstering productivity as a remote or distributed company to hiring high caliber leaders, lots of opportunities to connect with and problem solve with your peers, and much more.

We hope that you can join us!


Please note that the Spero Ventures Founder Summit is intended only for company CEOs and attendance is limited to one person per portfolio company. If you are unable to join us, please reach out and we can discuss making arrangements for another member of your executive team to join, if appropriate.
AGENDA

SUMMIT SCHEDULE

10:00am

Arrival, Check-In and Welcome Address

11:00am

Opening Keynote |  Immad Akhund, Co-Founder & CEO at Mercury

12:00pm

Founder Peer Connect + Networking

12:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Leadership Workshop Block

Small group workshops to discuss early stage founder-led team leadership (facilitated by Matt Munson) and growth stage executive leadership team development (facilitated by Geoff Donaker)

2:30pm

Functional Workshop Block

Expect led functional workshops focused on some of the key challenges our founders are facing:  founder-led sales strategies to get your product to market, tactics to use PR to drive awareness and build demand, people strategies around managing team performance and compensation.

3:30pm

Founder Peer Nature Walk

4:00pm

Functional Workshop Block

Expect led functional workshops focused on some of the key challenges our founders are facing:  founder-led sales strategies to get your product to market, tactics to use PR to drive awareness and build demand, people strategies around managing team performance and compensation.

5:00pm

Drum Circle Activity

6:00pm

Break

7:00pm

Dinner

9:00pm

Bonfire and S'mores

7:00am

Morning Yoga (optional)

8:30am

Breakfast

9:00am

Keynote | Alex Clayton, General Partner at Meritech

9:45am

Founder Lightning Talks

Learn from Spero Founders as they share a skill they've learned to make them a better leader or a strategy they take on to positively impact their company culture.

10:30am

Founder Peer Nature Walk

11:00am

Depart for Lunch + Hike

11:30pm

Picnic Lunch

12:30pm

Closing Nature Hike

Founders will have the opportunity to pick between two hiking paths -- one that will be a bit more challenging for experienced hikers and one that will be more easy for a less strenuous experience.

2:00pm

End of Summit  |  Shuttle to San Francisco

RSVP TO JOIN US

We can't wait to see you for this year's Founder Summit on May 8 - 9, 2023.

We will reach out with more details as the summit approaches.

If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Zieger at lisa@spero.vc.
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