🌪️ The Bay Area Brief: Autonomous Agent Loops, Broken Capital, & Heavyweight Scaling

July is delivering some of our highest-signal rooms yet. We’ve locked in exclusive access to the builders and investors actively reshaping the tech landscape—from autonomous engineering execution loops to the new rules of venture capital and hyper-growth GTM scaling. 🥳

📉 The Death (and Rebirth) of Venture Capital Ft. Dave McClure & Ben Black

• 📅 Date: July 16th

• ⏰ Time: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT (Private Dinner starts at 7:30 PM)

• 📍 Location: Park James Hotel, 1400 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025

• 📝 Description: A raw, live podcast recording and interactive Q&A dismantling the modern IPO bottleneck. Join industry pioneers Dave McClure (500 Startups) and Ben Black (Akkadian Ventures) as they unpack the explosive rise of the secondary market and modern fund design.

🔄 Loop Engineering Hackathon

• 📅 Date: July 17th

• ⏰ Time: 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM PDT

• 📍 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

• 📝 Description: Calling all engineers, PMs, founders, and hackers to build self-directing agent loops that plan, act, observe, and self-correct across the full build cycle. Ship something scrappy-but-real alongside elite teams from AWS, Zero.xyz, Nexla, and Pomerium.

• 🔗 Link: Register Here

⚡ Heavyweights: Scaling Revenue at Stripe and Vercel with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser

• 📅 Date: July 30th

• ⏰ Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

• 📍 Location: San Francisco, CA (Hosted by Baseten)

• 📝 Description: Baseten's Heavyweights fireside chat series features Baseten President Dannie Herzberg sitting down with Vercel COO Jeanne DeWitt Grosser. Learn the exact go-to-market playbooks used to turn developer tools into internet-scale infrastructure platforms.

Spots are limited and filling fast, so grab your ticket now to secure your place in these rooms! 🚀