Venture Visionaries Afterwork: The Contradiction Bar. Beer, business pushback and playful disagreement for founders who can handle it.

​What if networking was not just small talk?

​What if, for one evening, founders, builders and ambitious professionals could practise the most underrated business skill of all: disagreeing well?

​Welcome to The Contradiction Bar, a Venture Visionaries Afterwork with beer, business psychology, sharp humour and a live pop-up argument segment hosted by Henrik G.S. Arvidsson.

​This is not an aggressive debate night.
This is not a polite lecture either.

​It is a fun, intelligent and slightly absurd afterwork where ideas get challenged, assumptions get tested and egos are expected to survive the evening.

​You can bring a startup idea, a business opinion, a controversial founder belief, or simply your willingness to laugh while someone professionally disagrees with you.

​Expect sharp questions, playful contradiction, founder pushback, absurd business arguments and proper afterwork networking in a relaxed setting.

​What will happen?

​We start with informal drinks and networking. Then Henrik opens The Contradiction Bar, where selected participants can step into short, funny and structured argument rounds.

​You may be challenged on questions such as:

​Is your startup actually scalable, or are you just using the word because investors like it?

​Is your pitch clear, or only clear to you?

​Is your business model strong, or just emotionally convincing?

​Are founders too obsessed with confidence and too allergic to criticism?

​Can you disagree without becoming defensive?

​After the pop-up segment, we return to normal afterwork networking, but with better conversations, more energy and hopefully fewer boring LinkedIn-style introductions.

​Who is this for?

​Founders, entrepreneurs, startup people, consultants, investors, creatives, operators and anyone who enjoys intelligent humour, sharp conversation and business people who do not take themselves too seriously.

​You do not need to go on stage. You can simply watch, laugh, network and enjoy the atmosphere.

​Hosted by

​Henrik G.S. Arvidsson
Business researcher, psychology and forensic psychology specialist, former talk-radio host, former McKinsey consultant and founder of Venture Visionaries.

​Henrik will bring the argument.
You bring the opinion.
The room brings the verdict.

​Why attend?

​Because most networking events are too safe.

​This one is designed to be memorable.

​You will meet ambitious people, hear ideas challenged in real time, practise the art of disagreement and leave with better conversations than “So, what do you do?”Maybe you find a friend, business partner or two, or just make your wife clean your house for the next month to come!

​Event promise

​No personal attacks (unless the opponent is your husband/wife! :-) ( Henrik will be the default opponent, no, don`t even think it!)
No politics.
No shouting match.
No boring panel discussion.

​Just beer, business, humour, pushback and the rare pleasure of being contradicted properly.

​Seats are limited!!! No need to argue, Pointless

​This is a live, interactive afterwork format and works best with the right crowd and limited space.

​Register now and join the first edition of The Contradiction Bar.

​Come for the beer.
Stay for the argument.
Leave with better ideas.