A standing dinner for founders

The hardest job in the world
shouldn’t be the loneliest.

MyKind schedules a biweekly dinner with a small table of vetted founders — people who actually understand the weight you carry. No panels. No pitching. Just your kind, over a long meal.

Why this exists

The quiet part

Everyone sees the raise, the launch, the logo wall. No one sees the 2 a.m. version of you.

You can’t tell your team you’re scared. You won’t worry your investors. Your friends from before don’t quite get it anymore, and your partner has heard enough about runway. So you carry it — the doubt, the decisions, the weight — and you carry it alone.

Founding is the rare job where the stakes keep rising and the circle of people you can be honest with keeps shrinking. It’s not a mindset problem. It’s a tableproblem — there’s just no room where the truth is allowed.

MyKind builds that room. One biweekly dinner, a handful of founders who’ve been where you are, and a standing invitation to stop performing for a few hours.

81%
of founders report anxiety they don’t feel safe sharing with anyone in their company.
1 in 2
say loneliness directly affects their ability to lead the business.

A table, set for you, biweekly.

Membership does the hard part — the vetting, the matching, the booking. You just show up hungry.

01

Apply & get vetted

Share your LinkedIn and a little about what you’re building. We review every profile by hand so every seat at the table is a real founder, fairly matched.

02

Get your table

Biweekly, we seat you with a small group of founders matched on stage, season, and temperament. New faces, familiar weight.

03

Show up & be honest

No agenda, no pitching, no phones out. Just the conversation you can’t have anywhere else — and a group that keeps showing up for each other.

What happens between the bread and the bill.

Six founders. One long table. A few hours where nobody’s selling anything and everybody finally gets it. The relief isn’t the advice — it’s the recognition.

  • Who 5–6 vetted founders, thoughtfully matched
  • When One evening, biweekly
  • Where A warm, private corner of a real restaurant
  • RuleWhat’s said at the table stays at the table

Find your next table.

New tables open across Europe biweekly — pick one near you and claim your spot.

11Jun

Berlin · Mitte

Thursday, 6:30pm

Fully booked
18Jun

Lisbon · Príncipe Real

Thursday, 6:30pm

1 seat left
18Jun

Berlin · Mitte

Thursday, 6:30pm

3 seats left
25Jun

Amsterdam · Jordaan

Thursday, 6:30pm

3 seats left
27Jun

Barcelona · El Born

Saturday, 6:30pm

4 seats left

Your city not listed? and we’ll seat you at the next table near you.

Membership

One membership. A standing seat among your kind.

No à la carte, no points, no app to babysit. A simple monthly membership that keeps your place at the table, biweekly.

The Standing Seat
€20 / mo
Cancel anytime
  • A vetted table biweekly — yours to take or skip
  • Hand-matched founders, never the same room twice
  • Curated restaurants & private seating arranged for you
  • A members’ thread to keep the table going between dinners

Every member is reviewed by hand — starting with a quick LinkedIn profile review — so the founder beside you is always the real thing.

Request your seat

Every member is reviewed by hand, so the founder beside you is always the real thing.

We use your LinkedIn to verify you're a founder.