You know how to succeed.
What does success mean now?
A private retreat near Lisbon for ten accomplished founders, taking a few days outside the momentum to think deliberately about what deserves their time, ambition and attention next.
The first questions had metrics. The last one doesn't.
IF THAT'S YOUR QUESTION, APPLY ↗People who spent a life on the question you're only starting to ask.
Monks, philosophers, founders who left a winning game for another quest. One voice opens each day. No keynote, no stage. They stay at the table, and for dinner.
Announced closer to the retreat, once they have agreed to be named.
Announced closer to the retreat, once they have agreed to be named.
Announced closer to the retreat, once they have agreed to be named.
Built and sold the company he was supposed to want, then spent two years deciding what to do with the freedom it bought. He talks about the part nobody posts about: what an exit changes, and what it leaves exactly where it was.
You don't need to relate to all of this. One question is enough.
ONE QUESTION IS ENOUGH · APPLY ↗What connects the group isn't company status. It's the question.
SEE IF THE GROUP FITS ↗This is for founders who have already built, sold, or scaled something that worked.
Different situations. Same willingness to ask the question.
One mantra a day.
A setting built for founders looking for meaning: deep conversations, time for introspection, and experiences lived as a group.
The thread running through the four days: what a well-lived life is, where your contribution lies, and how to redefine what counts after entrepreneurial success.
Some conversations need a table. Others need cold water.
The other nine make the four days.
We're not filling ten rooms. We're composing the group you'll live four days with: people who have built enough to have something to say, and stayed curious enough to change their mind. Every evening it gathers around one long table.
PUT YOUR NAME FORWARD ↗Ten places, four days, one group.
Five minutes. The last two questions are the ones we read first. The rest is context.
No form scoring, no funnel. Every application gets an answer, including the ones we decline.
Thirty minutes, both ways. You're also deciding whether this is the right four days for you.
We hold the last place open until the group feels right. Nobody is added to reach ten.
A house made for not rushing.
Far enough from the noise, close enough to disappear for four days. Stone, morning light, one long table, and plenty of rooms where nobody is waiting for you.
One chef, one table, every night.
Ideas worth bringing into the house.
One of these will be waiting in your room, chosen from your application. Not homework, just something we thought you might want to open.
For the period between an ending and a new beginning, the part nobody schedules.
Because a new identity is usually tested before it's decided.
Because once money removes some constraints, time becomes the real limit again.
To put relationships back inside the definition of a successful life.
We aren't selecting the ten most impressive CVs.
We're trying to compose the right group. Five minutes, and the last two questions are the ones we read first.