July’s Virtual Founder Talk with Andy Mauro
It’s August: Let’s Kick Things Up a Notch
July was a great relaunch of the EH List - here’s what happened:
We had over 30 new applications to the EH List
We had an influx of interest to restart local chapter meetups
We have enough interest to launch our v1 of weekly accountability groups aka small groups of builders at comparable stages meeting ‘mastermind-style’ to add structure and momentum to each other’s weeks and energy every week or two.
Virtual EH List Founder Talks: Join us tomorrow with Sean Lynch!
Andy Mauro started things off very strong with an amazing founder talk where he actually pitched the audience his most recent deck that led to a successful raise from Vinod Khosla. The audience was stunned by his openness and helpfulness, to say the least.
This month we have a whole swath of amazing founder talks, starting with the founder of the EH List: Sean Lynch.
Sean Lynch
Sean Lynch
WHEN: JULY 31ST
12:00-1:00 EDT
Ask anyone about Sean Lynch - he co-founded Census, raised $60M from Sequoia/A16Z, and sold to Fivetran. But more importantly, he's the architect of the EH List. From small-town Saskatoon to Google to Dropbox's early PM team to YC, Sean built the bridge while crossing it.
Join us for the real story: the unglamorous early days, the Dropbox rocket ship, why he started EH List, and what actually happens when you sell to a unicorn. Bring your hardest questions.
Guy Gal
Guy Gal
WHEN: AUGUST 14TH
3:00-4:00 EDT
Guy Gal is founder/CEO of Side Real Estate, which hit unicorn status at $2.5B just 4 years from founding. Side has raised $250M+ from Tiger, ICONIQ and D1, and is now the 9th largest US brokerage by volume.
Guy is allergic to playing small and won't hesitate to tell you. Come prepared to have your mindsets challenged, your ideas flipped upside down, and to leave reeling from rapid perspective shifts.
Amir Feizpour
Amir Feizpour
WHEN: WEEKLY ON TUESDAYS FROM
3:00-4:00 EDT FOR 6 WEEKS - STARTING AUGUST 5TH
Amir Feizpour, PhD is bringing his popular Maven bootcamp on building LLM agents to EH List! As founder of Aggregate Intellect (5000+ AI community), former NLP Product Lead at RBC, and instructor of multi-agent systems, Amir has helped hundreds ship production agentic applications.
Join for 20-30 min lesson extracts from his bootcamp covering everything from "You Probably Don't Need Multi-Agents" to advanced evaluation techniques, followed by 30-40 min open Q&A on your agentic AI challenges. Monthly series starting in August.
Other Upcoming Speakers
Evan LaPointe
Upcoming Virtual Speaker in September
Evan LaPointe founded several companies and sold his last one to Adobe. Now, he helps people win.
Evan has been successfully selling himself, his team, and ideas for a long time, all based on sound principles of behavioral science. After selling his last company to Adobe, he has coached hundreds of people - from founders to product people to analytics and UX professionals - on how to achieve peak performance, build incredible cultures, create ideal teaming dynamics, and be understood, appreciated, and valued.
You might have seen Evan's episode on Lenny's Podcast, where he discussed fundamentals of how the mind works and how that applies to product work and beyond. He helps people win, specifically great humans who feel purpose in their work. When they win, everyone wins.
Do you have a topic you want to talk about or have someone you want to see talk with a connection to the group? Recommend them here.
Local Coffee Meetups Relaunching in September!
The core touchpoint of the EH List has always been the monthly-ish coffee meetup in a plethora of localities. Over the past few months there have been some meetups events in Ottawa, Victoria and elsewhere.
We are looking for local hosts to bring this magic back. Reach out to me ‘@kyleboulay’ on Slack, reply here, or sign up here, to let me know if you’re interested in hosting near you. Thank you to those of you who already reached out: EH List meetups in SF, New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Paris and Berlin will hopefully be launching soon.
Here are some recent and upcoming local EH List events:
In Ottawa, Ali and I will be cross hosting the Ottawa EH List members and YC alumni at Bower Coffee on July 15th. The next one is upcoming on the morning of August 12th.
Bower Coffee - July 15th 2025
Weekly Accountability Groups and #EH Momentum Threads
Since last month’s relaunch, we’ve also received enough interest to start our first accountability groups which will be going live towards the end of the month. Interested in joining?
Here’s how it is going to work:
Get sorted by yours truly into a pod with 3 others based on the expressed challenges you’ll be facing over the next quarter
Self-organize as a group how you want to touch base: weekly/monthly/async/zoom, etc
Share a few of your wins in the #eh channel for everyone else to feel the momentum from
At the end of the quarter, we will repeat the process again and reorganize the groups based on each person’s up to date challenges, interest, and availability.
Calling You Back to The EH List Slack
The EH List Slack has had its ups and downs from an engagement standpoint over the years, but the fact that it has served as an invaluable difference maker for many Canadian founders since Sean founded it in 2012 isn’t debatable. There are almost 1200 in there, some with old e-mails, some more lurking than engaging, but this your moment to jump back in. We have all sorts of weekly programming scheduled to bring the engagement back - come and be a part of that (if you are receiving this, but aren’t in the Slack, please reply to me here and I’ll sort you).
Community Growth + Ways To Follow Along
Over the past month, the EH List has onboarded over 20 new members. As a reminder, our application process happens here: ehlist.network/join. The EH List continues to grow organically through referrals - a true testament to the need an desire for us to group together as Canadian founders and help each other scale.
Other Action Items
More activity coming soon! In the meantime…
Join Us In Slack To Keep The Momentum Going and Good Building, Eh!
Steering the canoe for now,
Kyle
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