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In this month’s events roundup, we feature our new Not Another CEO Masterclasses, preview our upcoming speaking engagements and events, and recap last month’s virtual and IRL events.
Table of contents
📅 Featured Events
🎤 Speaking Engagements
📹 Upcoming Workshops & Events
⏪ Last Month’s Recap
📅 Featured Events
Today we are announcing Not Another CEO Masterclasses. Our masterclasses help CEOs action the collective wisdom of the world’s best operators and cover the most common issues for startup CEOs. In January, we are launching two masterclasses: Turn hiring into a competitive advantage, and Finding & closing the right investors.
👥 Turn hiring into a competitive advantage [virtual]
Starts Tuesday, January 20 @ 4:30PM ET
Hiring the right people is one of the most important levers for scaling a business. Yet many companies fail at it. Their interview process is inconsistent, biased or treats hiring as a checkbox rather than a strategic system. In this masterclass, learn how to create a culture of hiring excellence for your company through two complementary sessions and office hours:
How to conduct great interviews
How to build a hiring system that works
You’ll walk away able to successfully conduct interviews, build a repeatable hiring engine, and avoid the common traps that cost companies time, money and culture.
💰 Finding & closing the right investors [virtual]
Starts Wednesday, January 21 @ 9:30AM ET
Raising capital is one of the most challenging and consequential activities for any growing company. Yet, many founders approach fundraising haphazardly, chasing the wrong investors, making the wrong pitch and leaving that much needed capital unclosed. This masterclass will enable you to raise your round via two complementary sessions and office hours:
Close financing with the perfect pitch
Identify, target and build relationships with the right investors
Leave with confidence in your pitch to investors, and in finding partners who truly understand your vision and will close.
🎤 Speaking Engagements
In December, David Politis is wrapping his 2025 roadshow paying forward the wisdom collected from hundreds of the most successful founders in the world.
Next week, we are thrilled to be partnering again with our friends at SaaSBoomi for a dedicated workshop for their community.
In it, David will cover Things everyone f***cks up and should do differently. If this session sounds interesting to you, please register below for our virtual workshop on this same topic in January.
🤝 Want to Collaborate? If you are hosting a ceo-focused event and want to engage us in speaking opportunities, let us know. We’d love to hear from you.
📹 Upcoming Workshops & Events
We have several virtual workshops happening in January that you should consider joining:
📉Things everyone f***cks up and should do differently [virtual]
Tuesday, January 13th at 6PM ET
Join David Politis (Co-founder of Not Another CEO; Founder & former CEO of BetterCloud) for a candid breakdown of the mistakes every founder/CEO makes, and the hard-earned lessons that follow. This session draws from David’s experience building companies with $1B+ in exits and his hundreds of candid conversations with fellow CEOs as an advisor, investor and podcast host.
Expect to learn:
The most common CEO traps and how to avoid them
How top founders navigate fundraising, hiring, firing, and staying sane.
Practical CEO behaviours that drive focus, team performance, and customer obsession
❤️🩹 Maintaining your mental health as Founder/CEO [virtual]
Tuesday, January 27th at 8AM ET
Join Eric Spett (CEO of Scalebound; founder and former CEO of Terminus) for a virtual workshop on maintaining your mental (and physical) health as Founder/CEO. Eric will get brutally honest about the ups and downs of his own journey, share what he has personally learned, and lessons from his work coaching dozens of high growth software CEOs.
Expect to hear:
Eric share transparently about his own journey
Common health traps and failure patterns for high-performing CEOs
An actionable framework for founder mental health that you can put into practice
How to build a system to support your mental health and ensure 2026 is a great year
🎫 Want to Collaborate? If you want to partner with us on hosting or organizing an event, just reply to this email. We’d love to hear from you.
⏪ Last Month’s Recap
Last month’s launch event for ATL CEO Club, in partnership with our friends at Scalebound, was a huge success. We already count 100 ATL based tech CEOs as members, and we feel on our way to building what we feel Atlanta’s tech leaders have been missing: a curated room where top CEOs can show up fully as themselves.
In New York, we threw a well attended happy hour for tech Founders & CEOs. Huge thanks to our partners at Gunderson Dettmer for hosting our community. We had dozens of founders in attendance, who enjoyed conversations, drinks and food, as well as some thoughts on building companies from Not Another CEO’s David Politis.
CEOs brought their whole selves, and dove into honest, no-BS conversations. If you are an ATL or NYC based tech CEO, please apply for membership to our community:
We also held a series of well attended virtual workshops for CEOs and their teams.
Iris Mansour, Former Senior Creator Relations Manager at Linkedin, shared high-impact strategies for founders and CEOs to build trust and drive content visibility on the platform. Iris walked CEOs through tactical examples of how to succeed on LinkedIn. If you are a leader in tech looking to use Linkedin to build your personal brand, feel free to reach out to her directly.
And last week we held a virtual workshop where Eli Winderbaum, Head of CX at Mirage (formerly Captions) shared their journey to becoming an AI first Customer Experience org.
Eli led a highly engaged workshop where he covered the core role AI agents are now playing in Mirage’s customer experience, as well as technical implementation details. For more information, please read How 12 years, 5 startups & 500k tickets shaped Mirage’s AI-first CX or reach out to Eli on Linkedin.
We hope that 2025 ends strong for you and your company, and that you get some time to relax over the holidays. We cannot wait to support you in 2026. We will be back and hitting the ground running in January.