A Million Dollar Secret

Menlo Park. Invite or approval only.

One hundred AI founders and investors — every one either institutionally funded or building to serious ARR. No tourists, no pitch decks working the room. Just the people actually building.

The rule: you're in because someone in the room vouched for you. No growth hack, no fundraising trick. The secret is who's standing next to you.

A hand-picked group of active AI investors will be there too — the kind who can have a conversation without turning it into a term sheet.

The evening centers on a panel on the state of Silicon Valley and AI leading into 2027 and the GTM landscape. What actually gets funded in AI right now. What founders keep getting wrong. What the next twelve months look like from where they're sitting.

The Panel:

• Andrew Verrilli was one of Replit’s first five GTM hires and helped grow the organization to more than 100 people in under two years. He works with companies transforming their software development, product development and day-to-day operations with AI agents. He also builds internal tools for Replit’s GTM team, bringing a hands-on perspective to how companies become agentic and AI-first.

• Chris McDonough - VP of Sales at Campfire, the AI-native ERP taking on the legacy giants. Chris has a habit of joining companies just before they explode. As employee 40 at Motive, he helped take revenue from $800K to $30M in about 100 days. He then scaled an office from 0 to 100 at Samsara and spent time at Verkada before moving to Campfire, where he’s building an AI-native sales org from scratch. His contrarian view is that AI won’t replace sales reps but will widen the gap between the best and the rest.

• John Du - GTM at OpenAI, helping companies understand how frontier AI can be applied to real business problems

If you're in, you already know why.