The Founder's Plateau: Executive Fireside Chat | Virtual
A virtual conversation for founders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who’ve built something real—and are ready to break through what’s next.
You’ve built something real. Hit revenue. Proved the idea works. And now you’re staring at a ceiling you can’t quite name, and the people around you can’t quite see.
That’s the plateau. And this event is an open, honest conversation about how to break it.
The Village Focus
The Founder's Plateau is part of a growing series of gatherings designed to cultivate a village—a genuine, supportive community of founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs across the country who support each other, challenge each other, and truly understand what it takes to grow past the ceiling most people don't even talk about.
Whether you missed our in-person gathering in Cupertino, CA, or you are running your business from another corner of the country, this digital room is your entry point.
Your host is Liz Nguyen, featuring a live founder spotlight and Q&A with Wei Houng. This isn’t a webinar, a formal panel, or a corporate keynote. Liz will be hosting a comfortable, unfiltered conversation with Wei, opening up the floor for a raw, community-driven Q&A.
There is no "audience" at this event. Every person in the digital room is an active participant in the village.
What to Expect
A True Village: A welcoming, borderless room of founders who understand the unique weight of building a business.
Real, Direct Answers: Bring your toughest operational or leadership questions. Liz will guide the Q&A, pulling real bottlenecks from the cohort to address the actual challenges in the room.
National Connections: A rare chance to engage with growth-stage founders from across the country who are navigating the exact same ceilings.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET
Format: Virtual (Secure Zoom link sent upon registration approval)
Seating & RSVPs
To ensure every seat in this virtual circle is filled by an active, committed builder—and to keep the digital discussion incredibly sharp—we utilize a brief verification process.
Seat Confirmation Deposit: $10 (To ensure active attendance, a $10 commitment fee is required. 20% of proceeds directly benefit our HumanOp Impact Alliance non-profit partners).
A Quick Note Upon Sign-Up: When you request a seat, you'll see a field to submit your current business question. Bring a real one. Liz reviews every single submission before we go live to ensure the Q&A directly serves the biggest needle-movers for the founders on the call.
HumanOp Impact Alliance Benefactors
Your ticket does more than get you in the room. A portion of proceeds benefits two organizations doing work that matters:
Andy's Cafe is a nonprofit coffee venture built on a simple but powerful idea: that adults on the spectrum (with autism) have something exceptional to offer the workforce. With 85% of that community unemployed, Andy's Cafe creates real, sustainable jobs by pairing advanced robotics with what they call the "Autistic Advantage" — the attention to detail, consistency, and dedication that neurodiverse team members bring to every cup. Premium coffee. Real impact. Learn more at andys.cafe.
Verity Foundation has been building something the Bay Area needs since 2016. High school students earn merit-based scholarships — for college, trade school, and vocational programs — by volunteering at real community events. No essays. No applications. Just a proven track record, built over time, alongside real people. Event organizers get reliable volunteers. Local employers get entry-level candidates whose work ethic is already demonstrated. And students graduate into a world where people know their name. That's not a program. That's an ecosystem.
About Your Hosts
Wei Houng is Co-Founder of HumanOp and has spent 30+ years pattern-reading founders, Fortune 10 executives, and high-performance operators. His work is physics-based, not psychometric — built on understanding how you're actually wired so you can stop working against yourself. Through HumanOp Coherence (humanop.com/coherence), Wei offers strategic advisory for 7-figure founders and CEOs who've stopped recognizing the person doing the winning. Thirty years later, the founders find him — not the other way around.
Liz Nguyen is an Implementer at HumanOp and the host behind this village. Her work is rooted in one thing: seeing the potential in founders — even when they can't see it in themselves — and building spaces where they feel strong enough to act on it. Through The Founder's Dividend (humanop.com/dividend), Liz embeds with founder-led businesses to extract the Operational IP from the founder's head and install it in the business — so the business can run without you at the center of everything. She's here to uplift. To build the container. To make sure no founder navigates the hard parts alone.