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Today I'm announcing the one of the biggest things my friend Chenell Basilio (Growth in Reverse) and I have ever built:
Personal IPO Summit - The summit for audience-led founders.
Seats are available for free while they last.
We have an absolutely stacked, historic line-up for you:
Sam Parr - Built The Hustle and My First Million from $0 to a $20M exit
Justin Welsh - $12M+ one-person business, 1M+ followers
Lara Acosta - 300k+ LinkedIn followers, $200k/month software bootstrapped
Dickie Bush - $700k/month portfolio of digital writing businesses
Jay Clouse - Built one of the largest communities and podcasts for creators on the internet
Chris Koerner - 80+ businesses launched, 2M+ followers, Diary of a CEO / My First Million regular
MarketingMax - has built a 7-figure agency using his newsletter
And a half dozen more speakers you can view here, plus more to be announced
Why we’re launching an event
This is the greatest time in history to be building a company.
1/ AI is rapidly collapsing the cost of creating products
My buddy runs a $20M/year software company.
We were just at a retreat together (shout out Hampton community) and he told me his developer team is half its original size because of Claude Code.
Product development, websites, emails, social content, etc. etc. require a fraction of the talent and capital to get off the ground.
Case in point: A designer quoted me $3k for our summit event page. Instead, I vibe-coded it for $25 on Lovable a few Saturdays ago.
2/ Therefore, trust and distribution are the only durable advantage
Every social platform copied TikTok algorithm, which pushes users to a single ‘For You’ page and rewards sticky content from small accounts.
This means any anyone can build an audience from zero and convert that into customers.
Big companies already know this.
HubSpot has been quietly buying audiences. OpenAI just spent $100M+ on the TBPN podcast. Ramp and Anthropic are hiring heads of content at 200k-300k salaries.
Whether you build your own thing or help someone else build theirs, you need to know how to build an audience.
That’s exactly what the Summit designed to show you how to do.
The format:
Virtual across 2 days (June 2nd and 3rd).
I have a reputation for getting folks to be deeply tactical and share numbers they haven’t said anywhere else, and I can promise you this event will be no different.
Expect live workflow demos, Q&A, and social profile teardowns, not theory or tactics from 5 years ago.
If you plan to have leverage as a founder or creator in the next 2 years, you cannot sit this one out.
See you June 2nd - that’s the letter!
Nathan
P.S. Every guest - Sam Parr, Lara Acosta, etc. - is creating something to share with attendees. You’ll get access to everything, but ONLY if you register.