What Your Board Expects in 2027

​Investors sitting across dozens of boards build a real read on what makes a hiring plan actually work, well before most founders get to hear it explained plainly. That read usually surfaces in an LP update, or a call between co-investors comparing notes.

of All Trades (oAT) is hosting a panel that puts that insight directly in the room. We're speaking to VCs and Investors who've watched companies grow revenue without growing headcount, and watched others do the opposite, share what they've seen about building a team that scales, and what they're expecting for 2027.

​Meet the Panel:

• ​oAT Founder Britt Gage moderates, asking the questions founders usually only get to ask once they're already deep into a board relationship.

• ​Justin Kang, a Co-Founder and General Partner at Visible Hands, an early-stage venture fund that writes pre-seed and seed checks up to $500K in sector-agnostic companies led by founders from underrepresented backgrounds. Before Visible Hands, Justin served as Vice President of Economic Growth at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and as Executive Director of City Awake, where he led initiatives focused on making Boston's economy both more inclusive and more innovative. He brings that background in civic and economic development to a hands-on, community-first approach to venture investing, working closely with founders from the earliest stages of company building through to scale. Justin is based in Brooklyn, New York.

​What to Expect: Direct access to pattern recognition built from watching dozens of boards at once, not one advisor's single experience, shared to help you build, not to score what you've already built.

​Built for: Founders and CEOs at Series A and B, roughly 25 to 100 people, writing next year's hiring plan and looking to get ahead of the conversation instead of guessing at it.