Building for Resilience: What Makes a Company Hard to Kill

​Technology stopped being a moat. Nobody's written the replacement playbook.

​So what makes a company hard to kill when the technology and the supply chain under it are both moving? And how would you know, today, whether what you're building is still standing in twelve months?

​The honest answer is that it depends on what you build. Hardware, software, and biotech each have a different answer to what makes a company hard to kill, and most founders only ever hear one of them — whichever one the people around them happen to know.

​Founders are working this out live, without enough cycles behind them to see where it's heading. The people who can see it are the ones who've already watched a market break and rebuild.

​On September 25, The Founders Guild and Founders Insitute are partnering to bring them all in a room and asking them the same question, unrehearsed.

​Hardware, software, and biotech founders and investors, on stage together, answering what actually makes a company hard to kill right now.

​Who should be in the room

• ​Pre-seed and early-stage founders in hardware, software, or biotech, far enough in to want the thing pressure-tested by people who've seen it before

• ​You built something that works, and you can't yet say what stops someone rebuilding it in a weekend

• ​The ground under your category is moving and you're trying to work out how much

• ​Acquired in two years, or built to last; you haven't picked, and you're starting to see those are two different companies

​The room is small and every founder in it is vetted. Seats are limited an subject to approval

​Friday, September 25
6:00 — doors, drinks
6:30–7:30 — panel
7:30–8:00 — networking with the speakers and the room

Speakers Include:
Ryan Eppley — CEO of Root Access
Jeni Chang — Founder, Investor, and Managing Director of Founders Institute
Linda Hong Cheng — Founder of Abstract Atomic
And more to be announced...

Panel is moderated by Daniel Theobald — World renowned founder, investor, philanthropist and robotisist.