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#03_events - June 19, 2025 at 03:51 PM
Hey everyone! Our is starting in 10 minutes. See you there! The direct link is here if you need it to the Gildre Virtual HQ:
#06_social - June 19, 2025 at 01:51 PM
The Chicago crew in action last night conquering the Operation GRANIE escape room! More in-person events coming up soon all across the globe 🌎
#08_advice-questions - June 19, 2025 at 02:13 AM
<@U08NLUA5X53> might have some good insights!
#local-chicago - June 18, 2025 at 08:34 PM
See everyone tonight! I just updated the address for the event but it's right next door to the escape room so we're meeting at:
• Standard Bar and Grill (1332 N. Milwaukee) at 6PM
#local-chicago - June 18, 2025 at 08:33 PM
Hi Ankur nope no changes! The restaurant is right next door to the escape room so just updated the address there since that's where we're starting before the game.
#05_opportunities - June 18, 2025 at 03:11 PM
Thanks for sharing Alex! Let's grab
#local-boston - June 17, 2025 at 05:00 PM
Hi @channel I hope all is well! We're looking forward to hosting our next in-person event for the Boston/New England area!
I'll email you all the survey link but if you can complete the that will help us hone in on an exact date for the event.
We're proud to announce your local community leader as @Shweta Agrawal so she'll be helping us coordinate and getting some great activities together!
#03_events - June 16, 2025 at 02:00 PM
Happy Monday everyone! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the upcoming week of Monday, 6/16 - Friday, 6/20. See you at our on Wednesday!
• Tuesday, 6/17 (11AM CST): (Ecosystem Event)
• Thursday, 6/19 (11AM CST):
• Thursday, 6/26 (11AM CST): (June Executive Workshop)
#06_social - June 15, 2025 at 07:57 PM
Thanks Berk and Happy Father’s Day to all the dads and moms out there! One day she won’t believe this shirt but mom chose it 😂
#02_general - June 13, 2025 at 02:58 PM
Hi @everyone we're excited to introduce the launch of Gildre Newswire, an exclusive new benefit designed to amplify your company's visibility and help you share important updates with our community and the world!
As part of your Gildre membership, you now can now publish one free press release to the basic package per month (*use code *GILDRE100) and also get access to discounted premium PR packages. The free releases will appear at: which will be an extension of the main Gildre site.
• Announce Major Milestones – Product launches, funding rounds, partnerships, and more.
• Tell Your Brand’s Story – Publish your news documenting key events.
• Enhance SEO & Reach Investors – Improve discoverability and attract the right audience.
Ready to make an impact? Start distributing your press releases today. You can get started and create your account at:
The code to use your free monthly press release through the Gildre Basic release is: GILDRE100.
Let us know if you have any questions and we're happy to help - excited to see everyone's updates and use this as a way to share major member successes across the community!
#03_events - June 09, 2025 at 02:21 PM
Happy Monday all! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the upcoming week of Monday, 6/9 - Friday, 6/13. Our June Speed-Networking is coming up on 6/19 followed by our Executive Workshop on 6/26 featuring Divvy founder, . See you there!
• Monday, 6/9 (7PM CST): (Ecosystem Event)
• Thursday, 6/19 (11AM CST):
• Thursday, 6/26 (11AM CST): (June Executive Workshop)
#06_social - June 06, 2025 at 03:51 PM
Biggest takeaway is that not every competitor shares the same ICP. Plenty of room in most markets to target unique customer profiles and provide value where your competitors aren't.
#00_announcements - June 03, 2025 at 02:21 PM
Congrats <@U082CJ7QMAA>! Voting now will share this with my Boston network as well.
#productcohort-diana - June 03, 2025 at 01:37 AM
This is great - thanks for sharing Diana! Love the highlights and quotes.
#02_general - May 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I know we already chatted separately Frances but yes! Everything connection-wise will be on Nexus moving forward! 🚀
#04_resources - May 27, 2025 at 02:55 PM
Hi all - just a reminder that we have an internal "" page highlighting content directly from other founders in the community!
If you've got a substack, podcast, blog, newsletter, etc. and want to have it included just message me or <@U085ZL0JS0Y> and we'll get it updated on the site this week.
#03_events - May 26, 2025 at 04:37 PM
Happy Memorial Day/Monday everyone! We've got our May Executive Workshop this Wednesday hosted by GTM & @Kevin O'Donnell centered around: .
RSVP for the event here: [Building a Sustainable GTM Strategy - from Customer Acquisition to Long-Term Retention](
• Wednesday, 5/28 (11AM CST): <).
#local-chicago - May 21, 2025 at 02:20 PM
Morning everyone! Our next Chicago in-person event is scheduled for Wednesday, June 18th at 6PM!
You can RSVP and sign up here but please only RSVP if you are able to make it since there's limited space for the escape room (dinner + drinks all are welcome!)
See you then!
#03_events - May 20, 2025 at 04:03 PM
Hi All here's the updated link!
#03_events - May 20, 2025 at 04:03 PM
#08_advice-questions - May 20, 2025 at 02:48 PM
has a great reputation as well and we've worked with them at our previous days at the accelerator!
too
#03_events - May 19, 2025 at 02:59 PM
Happy Monday all! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of Monday, 5/19 - Friday, 5/23. We've got our May Speed-Networking event tomorrow - see you then!
• Tuesday, 5/20 (11AM CST):
• Thursday, 5/22 (1PM CST): [Equity Essentials for Founders](_gcl_au*MTYyNjg4MTgzNC4xNzQzNjUwNzM3)* (Ecosystem Event)
#06_social - May 16, 2025 at 03:34 PM
Networking lessons from beer league hockey and basketball have been instrumental over the past few years 😅
#01_introductions - May 11, 2025 at 09:02 PM
Welcome to the Gildre Community <@U08QMCRN1QX>! Looking forward to chatting next week and learning more about your impressive background.
#01_introductions - May 09, 2025 at 01:26 PM
Welcome to the Gildre Community Marco! We’re looking forward to learning from your experiences and supporting your journey 🚀
#local-chicago - May 07, 2025 at 04:21 PM
Hey Gavin - I'll unfortunately be out of the city tomorrow but we're planning our next in-person Gildre event later this month so looking forward to getting the crew together!
#03_events - May 05, 2025 at 02:47 PM
Happy Monday everyone! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of Monday, 5/5 - Friday, 5/9. This month we kick off @Diana Stepner's Innovation Roundtable series after @Lysle Wickersham's phenomenal kickoff earlier this year.
• Tuesday, 5/6 (3PM CST): [Pitch Deck Clinic & Pitch Insights](_gcl_au*MTYyNjg4MTgzNC4xNzQzNjUwNzM3)* (Ecosystem Event)
• Thursday, 5/8 (12PM CST): (Ecosystem Event)
• Thursday, 5/8 (5PM CST): (Event with NachoNacho)
• Wednesday, 5/14 (3PM): hosted by @Diana Stepner
#local-boston - April 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Hey everyone! We're excited to launch the Gildre <#C08NJTURZK8|> channel as we plan our next in-person event coming up. More details to come but looking forward to creating more valuable in-person connections here.
#00_announcements - April 28, 2025 at 05:41 PM
Now I know what's been wrong with my dishwasher this whole time 😅
#03_events - April 28, 2025 at 02:45 PM
Happy Monday all! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of Monday, 4/28 - Friday, 5/2. Our hosted by @Diana Stepner is this Wednesday so we look forward to seeing you there!
• Tuesday, 4/29 (4PM CST): at Bar Hugo
• Wednesday, 4/30 (11AM CST):
#local-chicago - April 22, 2025 at 02:59 PM
Kudos to <@U081VCHV9N1> on hosting an amazing founder meetup last week (and every upcoming Wednesday!) If you're interested in joining the next 1 Million Cups event we'll be at The Set Collective - PM either of us for details.
#10_brandmarketingcohort-lysle - April 22, 2025 at 02:21 PM
Thank you Lysle! Here is the link to his calendar for those that are seeking additional support on Brand Strategy:
Diana's Innovation Roundtable series will begin next month but this channel will remain active throughout the year for continued insights from Lysle's end and to share other best practices/tips for your own Brand Marketing perspectives.
#productcohort-diana - April 21, 2025 at 04:05 PM
Thanks for sharing Diana! This is great. Looking forward to your Executive Workshop later this month!
#03_events - April 21, 2025 at 03:00 PM
Happy Monday everyone! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of Monday, 4/20 - Friday 4/25. See you at our Speed Networking this Thursday!
• Wednesday, 4/25 (4PM CST): (Ecosystem Event hosted by @Jason Jacobsohn)
• Thursday, 4/24 (11AM CST):
#01_introductions - April 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What a coincidence that’s why I decided to launch Gildre with Taiga as well 😂
#10_brandmarketingcohort-lysle - April 16, 2025 at 08:36 PM
Hi all - here's the deck from Lysle's 4th Innovation Roundtable session! For those that wanted to join but couldn't due to Zoom issues we'll figure out the best way to connect with Lysle directly and share your homework/notes from previous sessions.
#03_events - April 16, 2025 at 07:53 PM
No that's okay! We can collaborate after.
#03_events - April 16, 2025 at 07:43 PM
It was odd - I do have the Zoom app on my PC but I tried logging in and it was giving me this error message even from login without accessing an event.
#10_brandmarketingcohort-lysle - April 16, 2025 at 07:19 PM
Okay sorry all Zoom seems to be having issues on their end. We'll see if we can add an incremental session or Lysle can do some 1:1's
#03_events - April 16, 2025 at 07:15 PM
It looks like Zoom is down on their end but some people have been able to join the session thus far! For those that aren't able to join you can use this link as Taiga shared and just try a couple times which hopefully will do the trick:
#00_announcements - April 14, 2025 at 08:16 PM
Looking forward to checking out the episode Michael!
#03_events - April 14, 2025 at 03:00 PM
Happy Monday all! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of 4/14 - 4/18. This is @Lysle Wickersham's capstone Innovation Roundtable so make sure you don't miss out before we graduate to Product next month!
• Wednesday, 4/16 (2PM CST): hosted by @Lysle Wickersham
• Thursday, 4/17 (1PM CST): [Keeping Investors Happy & Writing More Checks](https://%20https//get.forecastr.co/20250417-gust?lead_source=Other&lead_source__details=Events+page&_gl=1*ow3amr_gcl_au*MTYyNjg4MTgzNC4xNzQzNjUwNzM3)* (Ecosystem Event)
#06_social - April 11, 2025 at 07:59 PM
Sitting in my moms office at Kraft when I realized I wanted to go into business 😂
#03_events - April 07, 2025 at 03:23 PM
Happy Monday everyone! Here's your Weekly Events Digest for the week of 4/7 - 4/11. @Lysle Wickersham's capstone Innovation Roundtable is next week before we transition to Product-focus with @Diana Stepner in May. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
• Wednesday, 4/9 (12PM CST): (Ecosystem Event)
• Wednesday, 4/16 (2PM CST): hosted by @Lysle Wickersham
#03_events - April 01, 2025 at 01:49 PM
Happy Tuesday everyone - we've got a brand new event this week hosted by Co-Founder, @Armando Vera Carvajal!
This is part of a new event series where each month we'll be bringing in a leader to highlight the pains and gains of the founder journey and create an uplifting space for founders to connect at a deeper level.
We'll be having sessions such as Breathwork, Meditation, and more in the future so stay tuned as this pairs with our existing Executive Workshops, Speed-Networking, and more!
RSVP for the event here this Thursday, April 3rd at 11AM CST!
#00_announcements - March 31, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We got you! Let's keep it going 💪
#00_announcements - March 31, 2025 at 02:39 PM
@Austin Lortie should have some good insights into this!
#08_advice-questions - March 31, 2025 at 03:26 AM
Thanks for sharing Jonathan! Can you clarify a little more on the use case with this? Is this the first thing a new client sees before they have a conversation with you or do they get this after a meeting/reachout?
#04_resources - March 29, 2025 at 04:53 PM
This is awesome thanks for sharing Valentina! I need to spend some more time and dig into Notebook LM myself.
#local-chicago - March 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Little bit of everything! They have different flavors paired with different alcohol like Vodka, Rum, etc.