Startup Inside: Building Like a Founder at a Big Company

​Big companies have the customers, the data and the budget. Startups have the speed. This is how you get both.

​Some of the best new products of the last decade were built inside large companies by people who acted like founders: small teams, real customers early, and the nerve to ship before the steering committee met. Most corporate innovation never gets that far.

​What you'll get

• ​A practical playbook for building like a founder inside a big organisation

• ​Honest stories from intrapreneurs and corporate venture builders: what worked and what got killed

• ​Peers from product, innovation and venture teams across London to meet

​The evening

• ​6:30pm: doors and drinks

• ​7:00pm: talks. How to find an executive sponsor, carve out a small team, get to real users fast and survive procurement, legal and the annual budget cycle.

• ​7:40pm: panel and Q&A. Intrapreneurs and corporate venture builders on what worked, what got killed and when to spin out. Speakers announced soon.

• ​8:15pm: drinks and networking until 9pm

​Who it's for

​Product, innovation and venture leads, engineers, strategy and transformation teams at large companies, and founders who build with them.

​Hosted by Encode Club at Encode Hub, London's AI centre in Shoreditch (41 Pitfield Street, London N1 6DA). Free to attend. Spaces are limited and every registration is reviewed by the team, so you'll hear from us once you're approved.