Interesting People 4 — Victoria, July 2026

That's a wrap on Interesting People 4

The next Interesting People

July 26–29, 2027

Victoria, Canada

Three days, 150 people, one very good summer.
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A note from Andrew

How it all started.

In 2010, I was twenty-four, sitting at a big circular table at my first tech conference. Cheesy gold chairs, greyhound bus pattern cushions, hotel banquet hall. The VC next to me — white button-down, Patagonia vest, of course — asked about my startup. I told him I'd bootstrapped it.

“Ah,” he said. “A lifestyle business.”

Then he turned his back on me and started talking to someone else. Left me sitting there, cheeks flushed, awkwardly sandwiched between two other conversations.

I've never forgotten how that felt. Being dismissed based on an arbitrary status game. (Also: screw that guy.)

So I built the opposite. Like Harvard, but instead of needing a trust fund and a last name that's on a building somewhere, you just need to be interesting and nice.