Not Another CEO Events Roundup
Things everyone f***cks up and should do differently; join IRL in New York and Atlanta, or online
Today we’re launching Not Another CEO Events Roundup: a monthly summary of our upcoming IRL and virtual events. Our goal is simple: to organize, host and promote events that actually help CEOs grow themselves and their companies.
Over the past six months, we have hosted 23 events for CEOs, from tactical virtual workshops to small group dinners, and the feedback has been amazing.
In each roundup, we’ll feature our high signal events for Founders & CEOs, highlight where Not Another CEO is speaking next, and provide a full roundup of upcoming virtual events. At the very bottom, you’ll see a recap of everything from the past month.
📅 Featured Events in New York and Atlanta
🎤 Speaking Engagements
📹 Upcoming Virtual Workshops
⏪ Last Month’s Recap
📅 Featured Events in New York and Atlanta
🍷 [New York] Happy Hour + Things everyone f***cks up and should do differently
Thursday, December 4 @ 5:30–9:00PM ET
Join our final in-person gathering of 2025! We’ll kick off with food, drinks, and networking, followed by a conversation led by Not Another CEO co-founder David Politis.
David will share the collective wisdom gathered from more than 100 of the most successful founders in the world. The topic of the evening? Things everyone f***cks up and should do differently. The night wraps with an afterparty at a local bar. Huge thanks to our host Gunderson Dettmer.
🍷 [Atlanta] Launch event for ATL CEO Club
Thursday, November 20th @ 6:00–10:00PM ET
Join our kickoff event for ATL CEO Club, presented by Scalebound and Not Another CEO. Expect great food and drinks, as well as lightly curated conversations with fellow CEOs.
ATL CEO club is an application-only group and all CEOs are vetted based on revenue, growth rates, and recommendations from existing members. To join, please apply to the club below.
🎤 Speaking Engagements
In November, David Politis, co-founder at Not Another CEO, is continuing his fall roadshow presenting the practical insights collected from hundreds of leaders via interviews on Not Another CEO podcast, our advisory work, and community engagement.
As Warren Buffet said, “it’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” Our sincere to Work-Bench for hosting us on Tuesday November 18th for an intimate talk with their entire portfolio.
Reminder - if you are NYC-based and want to learn from other CEO’s mistakes, please join our December 4th event. See some recent feedback below.
🤝 Want to Collaborate? If you’re hosting a CEO-focused event and want to partner with us, just reply to this email. We’d love to hear from you.
📹 Upcoming Virtual Workshops
🧳️ [Virtual] LinkedIn Best Practices w/ Iris Mansour
Tuesday, November 25 @ 6PM ET
Iris Mansour, former Tech Creator Relations lead at Linkedin, will host a tactical session on building your presence and personal brand on LinkedIn. Expect practical takeaways, guidance on what content performs best, and live opportunities for practice and feedback.
🧳️ [Virtual] How 12 years, 5 startups & 500k tickets shaped Mirage’s AI-first CX
Wednesday, December 10 @ 6PM ET
Hear Eli Winderbaum, Head of Customer Experience at Mirage (formerly known as Captions), talk about how their team is adopting an AI first mindset to provide a superior customer experience. This will be a hands-on workshop demoing their CX stack, and the core role AI agents are now playing.
⏪ Last Month’s Recap
We had an amazing lineup of events in October in New York and Atlanta, starting with intimate CEO dinners.
In mid October we kicked off ATL CEO Club, in partnership with our friends at Scalebound, and hosted a dinner for 20 growth stage tech CEOs. Applications are now open.
We already have 50 members and the quality is 🔥.
Right before Halloween, we hosted a 10 person founder/CEO dinner in NYC on Adopting an AI mindset. Some of my favorite tidbits from the discussion were:
Providing your employees a $1,000 (required) annual budget to try new AI tools
Offering a $100K bounty for an employee to fully automate their job using AI
We held vibrant discussions about deploying AI-generated code at scale, and dug into the various tools that people were using. It feels like we could do a whole events series specifically on the AI tools recommended by CEOs for CEOs, but here are a few mentioned at dinner:
Wispr Flow — for voice transcription
Granola — automatic meeting summaries and follow-ups.
Attio — AI forward CRM (highly recommend deploying alongside Granola)
Clay – for who’s who and surfacing context before meetings.
Rewind — a “second brain” for recalling anything he’s seen or said.
AudioPen — great for capturing thoughts on the go and turning them into clean notes.
Magical — automating repetitive messages and CRM tasks.
Gamma — secret weapon for quick investor decks.
Elicit — quick research summaries from academic sources.
Fyxer — founders swore by Fyxer’s email client, and that their smart labeling and AI generated responses were far better than other options like Superhuman
This past week, we also held our latest poker night for Founders Club NY. 20 Founders/CEOs came together for a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament with food and drinks. The poker was table stakes; upping the ante was the CEOs in the room.
To cap off it off, David Politis, co-founder at Not Another CEO, has spent his fall paying forward lessons from a career as a serial entrepreneur, and based on our latest research. He spoke to over 1,000 Founder/CEOs in the past month, including at Flybridge Founders week, SaaSboomi Caravan, Vertex Ventures’ Annual Founder Summit, Antler’s Fall 2025 Residency Kickoff, and Venture Atlanta. Check out some of the photos below!
