Speaking
A talk, a workshop, or the thing that comes after both.
I've spoken in forty-two countries, and the rooms that got the most out of it were the ones that treated the talk as an opening rather than an event.
Formats
Four ways this usually gets booked.
Keynote
Fifteen or twenty minutes, or a longer version for a room that has the time. Best as the opening or closing of a day.
Workshop
Two to two and a half hours with your founders, run as a conversation. The signature format.
Talk + workshop
The evening moves the room; the next morning puts tools in their hands. The most common booking, and the one I'd suggest.
Full program
Where the workshop is one phase of something longer, ending with your companies on the ground in Austin.
The talks
Pick the one that fits your room.
Every one of these has been given to real audiences and rewritten after. They adapt to the room — tell me who's in yours and I'll tell you which one I'd bring.
Don't Just Start a Startup, Launch a Personal Revolution
Kennedy's two-a.m. question in 1960, my father's answer to it, and the argument that nobody is coming to ask us — so we ask each other. Closes on building a bridge, in both directions.
Read →U.S. Market Entry: Five Lenses for Crossing Borders
Why Texas and Austin specifically, the second valley of death nobody plans for, and how to pick a beachhead small enough to actually win. Run as a conversation, not a lecture.
Read →Why Austin Is Overtaking Silicon Valley
What international founders get wrong about the United States, and the three things you need before you land: mindset, relationships, and ecosystem fluency.
Read →Creating a Powerful Future Together in an Age of Disruption
Care, connection, creation — and why the places that have already lived through the worst of it tend to understand this fastest.
Read →What I need from you
Two people, and a room where they can interrupt me.
A keynote needs a stage and an audience. The workshop needs two people you probably already know — someone from your own ecosystem who has made the crossing, and a lawyer who can answer the visa and entity questions when they come up.
Beyond that: travel from Austin, and enough notice to build the trip around it.
How booking works
- Send the form — it takes about two minutes and asks for the things I'd otherwise email you about.
- You'll hear back within a few days.
- We'll talk about what you're actually trying to achieve before anyone talks about a fee.
Not sure which one fits