Company
Where founders meet founders
Summits, workshops, and cohorts through the year, in the room with the FNDRS partners and owners on the same path. Every stop is built around the exit you are working toward.
Why founders come
Why the room matters on the way to an exit
You can read about selling a business. Sitting with founders who have done it, and with the people who fund and buy businesses, is how you see your own path.
Relationships
Owners on the same path and founders who have already exited. The people you meet in the room become the people you call.
The elements
Work through the FNDRS elements with the advisors and see where your business stands today, and what to build next.
A wider view
Speakers and peers from other industries show you what is possible, and what you have not considered yet.
Access to capital
Meet the investors, lenders, and buyers who fund and acquire businesses like yours, before you need them.
Ways to sell
A strategic buyer, private equity, a partial sale, a sale to your team. Hear how each one works from people who have done it.
The process
See how a sale runs from preparation to close, so when it is your turn you run the process instead of reacting to it.
Next up · Oct 21 to 23, 2026
Deal by design
Palm Springs founder summit · Palm Springs, CA
Three days to design your exit: secure the why, scale the value, and sell on your terms.
In valuations, delivered in the last twelve months.
Enterprise value founders did not know existed.
Founder-first: strategic advisory built around you, not the buyer.
0:30The venue
Thompson Palm Springs
A modern desert resort on Palm Canyon Drive, the San Jacinto mountains behind you and downtown a short walk away.
- Venue
- Thompson Palm Springs Resort
- Date
- Oct 21 to 23, 2026
- Location
- Palm Springs, CA
FNDRS mission 2026
Four stops, one arc
A year-long journey built to move founders from clarity to control: personally, professionally, and financially. Palm Springs is where it lands.
Q1 2026
Planning the peaks
Park City · UT
Q2 2026
From inside out
Tulum · MX
Q3 2026
Finding financial freedom
Huntington Beach · CA
You are hereQ4 2026
Life by design
Palm Springs · CA
Sedona, AZ · Nashville, TN · Big Sky, MT · New Orleans, LA
The FNDRS community
Four cities, one network of founders
This is who you will be building alongside.
Founders on film
Hear it from founders who have done it
Founders who worked with FNDRS, in their own words. The people you meet in the room have been where you are.
No entrepreneur left behind
The best exits are designed, not discovered. Come design yours in the room with people who have done it.