East Bay Bootstrapped Founders - Meet up

Most advice for founders comes from people who raised a round before they ever built anything. This isn't that. I'm Chris Lele, and I run an AI training practice I built with no co-founder and no funding, just figured it out as I went. A few years back I watched my friend Rick Valenzi start with nothing but a spark of an idea and his own hustle. Today that idea is a ten-year-old financial services and advising firm with a real team behind it. I'm sitting down with Rick, fireside-chat style, to talk about what actually happens between year one and year ten when nobody's writing you a check. The decisions that looked smart and weren't. The ones that looked reckless and worked. What changes once you're not the only one in the room anymore. This is for anyone who built something themselves and funded it themselves, whether you're still solo or you've since brought people on. Founders across industries, in one room, trading the kind of war stories you only get honest about with someone who's actually been there. The lineup: 6:00–6:30 — Networking 6:30–6:40 — AI tips for founders…