Speakers · Compass 01

Seasoned entrepreneurs in the room.

A Speaker leads one Instruction week, open to the Class and Community. They bring lived experience and answer real questions from the room. They experience share with applied theory, they do not lecture.

How we choose Speakers

Lived experience, not stage time.

For the inaugural Compass cohort, we are recruiting operators and academics who have taken a business to its next stage by breaking something that worked: a founder role handed off, a pricing model rebuilt, a cost structure rewritten, a core customer left behind. Each Speaker answers the same questions: what did you have to break, when did you know, what did you build in its place, and what did you refuse to break? We weight current operating experience over speaking-circuit polish. We weight willingness to sit and listen over willingness to perform.

Compass 01 lineup

Announced as each Speaker confirms.

We are recruiting Speakers through the summer, one for each of the four Instruction weeks. Rather than publish a tentative list, we announce each Speaker as they confirm. The full lineup will be public before lottery entries open on September 1. If you know an operator or academic who belongs in this room, tell us.

The four Instruction weeks, their dates, and their topics:

Tue March 30, 2027 — The customer and the model
Tue April 13, 2027 — The cost structure
Tue April 27, 2027 — The org chart
Tue May 11, 2027 — The founder’s role