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Vol. 01 — Issue 01Dallas, Texas · est. 2026

Founders Keepers

Dallas has founders.
It’s missing a room.
We’re building one.

Built for the ones building.

(01)A short note

There are people in Dallas building things. Quiet, ambitious things. Some shipped. Some still living in a notebook on a kitchen counter at 2 a.m.

They don’t know each other yet.

Founders Keepers exists to introduce them. A room, on a recurring cadence, for the people who can’t stop building and need to be around others who can’t either.

Right now, it’s simple. Just the room, the work, and everyone else in it.

(02)Why Dallas
Empty downtown Dallas street at pre-dawn.

Dallas isn’t trying to be San Francisco. It’s becoming itself.

The talent is here. The capital is here. The conviction is here. What’s missing is the gravity — the recurring room you walk into and meet the next ten years of your network.

We’re not waiting for that room to appear. We’re hosting it. Founders Keepers is built in Dallas, for the people who choose to build here, and for anyone willing to drive in.

(03)How we gather

Three rooms.
One community.

  • Build nights

    Bring what you’re working on.

    An evening with laptops open and conversations going. Stay until the thing gets better. Leave with two new people who care that it does.

  • Founders’ dinners

    Long table. Real food.

    Small, intentional, thoughtfully seated. A few hours with people who’ll get the next sentence out of your mouth before you finish it.

  • Off-sites

    Phones down. Doors closed.

    A weekend a few times a year. The kind of thing you can only make in a room together — for company-shaping decisions, not networking.

(04)Get on the list

Pull up.

We’ll send one email when the first room opens. Then nothing else, unless it’s worth your time.

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