[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-how-to-meet-founders-san-francisco":3,"related-how-to-meet-founders-san-francisco":210},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"canonical":186,"city":187,"date":188,"description":189,"extension":190,"faq":191,"image":200,"meta":201,"navigation":202,"path":203,"seo":204,"slug":205,"stem":206,"tag":207,"updated":208,"__hash__":209},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-meet-founders-san-francisco.md","How to Meet Founders in San Francisco: 7 Strategies That Actually Work","Founder Feast",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":172},"minimark",[10,14,19,28,32,35,39,42,46,49,53,56,60,63,67,89,93,96,119,122,126,132,138,144,150,154],[11,12,13],"p",{},"The fastest way to meet founders in San Francisco is to stop attending big events and start showing up, repeatedly, at small ones. Founders in this city are everywhere and overcommitted, so they filter hard: they invest in people they see more than once, in rooms small enough for real conversation. Pick two or three recurring formats, commit for ninety days, and you will build a founder network that a year of mixers cannot match. Here are the seven strategies that actually work.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"_1-choose-recurring-over-one-off-always","1. Choose recurring over one-off, always",[11,20,21,22,27],{},"This is the master rule the other six depend on. A single event gives you one conversation and a follow-up message that dies in a busy inbox. A recurring event gives you the same faces week after week, and familiarity does the work that networking small talk cannot. The founder you nod at three weeks in a row becomes the founder you grab dinner with in week four. Before you add anything to your calendar, ask one question: will the same people be here next time? If the answer is no, downgrade it. Our guide on ",[23,24,26],"a",{"href":25},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-network-as-a-founder","how to network as a founder"," unpacks why compounding beats collecting.",[15,29,31],{"id":30},"_2-work-where-founders-already-work","2. Work where founders already work",[11,33,34],{},"San Francisco has entire buildings that function as founder filters. Shack15 in the Ferry Building is a social club for entrepreneurs. South Park Commons gathers technical people exploring their next thing. Coworking spaces cluster founders by neighborhood and stage. The move is not to tour them all. It is to pick one and make it your default: work there, take your calls there, eat lunch in the common area instead of at your desk. Proximity plus repetition produces the collisions that events promise and rarely deliver.",[15,36,38],{"id":37},"_3-build-through-the-accelerator-orbit","3. Build through the accelerator orbit",[11,40,41],{},"You do not need to be a YC founder to benefit from the YC network. Alumni are dense in every corner of the city, and the network is famously generous one degree out. The play: find one alum in your space, ask for advice on something specific, and be genuinely useful back. One real relationship with an alum is worth more than fifty cold DMs, because intros inside that network carry built-in trust. The same logic applies to any accelerator community with an SF presence.",[15,43,45],{"id":44},"_4-ship-something-at-a-hackathon","4. Ship something at a hackathon",[11,47,48],{},"Hackathons are the highest-signal way to meet technical founders, because you watch people build under pressure instead of hearing them describe themselves. Cerebral Valley's AI hackathons and the demo nights at hacker houses like AGI House are the current center of gravity. A weekend of shipping next to someone compresses six months of coffee chats. Come with a project idea, join a team where you carry real weight, and demo even if it is rough. Builders remember who built.",[15,50,52],{"id":51},"_5-take-the-conversation-outside","5. Take the conversation outside",[11,54,55],{},"Run clubs have become a genuine founder institution in San Francisco, and for good reason: they are free, they recur weekly, and moving side by side strips out the performance of a networking room. Nobody is scanning over your shoulder for someone better on a run along the Embarcadero. Find them on Luma, or start your own with three people, because the founder who organizes the run gets to know everyone by default. Hikes and climbing gyms run on the same physics.",[15,57,59],{"id":58},"_6-turn-internet-friends-into-real-ones","6. Turn internet friends into real ones",[11,61,62],{},"Half the founder relationships in this city start on Twitter. Post about what you are building, reply usefully to founders in your space for a few weeks, then send the simplest message in networking: \"I'm in SF, coffee?\" The prior interaction does the warming for you, so the coffee starts at depth instead of at introductions. This is the cheapest strategy on the list and the most neglected, because it feels less like networking and more like just being a person online. That is exactly why it works.",[15,64,66],{"id":65},"_7-get-a-seat-at-a-curated-table","7. Get a seat at a curated table",[11,68,69,70,73,74,78,79,83,84,88],{},"Every strategy above requires you to generate your own luck. Curated formats invert that: someone else does the filtering and the matching, and you just show up. This is what we built ",[23,71,6],{"href":72},"\u002Fsan-francisco"," to do. Five hand-picked founders per table at a restaurant we choose, revealed 24 hours before, every other Thursday at 7pm. Every member is vetted, membership is $39.99 USD a month and covers your seat at every dinner, and you pay the restaurant for what you eat. Dinners run every other Thursday in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver. ",[23,75,77],{"href":76},"\u002Fapply","Apply for a seat",". The full format, start to finish, is in our ",[23,80,82],{"href":81},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffounder-dinners-san-francisco","founder dinners in San Francisco"," guide, and if you want to compare curated dinners against other options first, our roundup of ",[23,85,87],{"href":86},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsan-francisco-tech-networking-events-2026","San Francisco tech networking events in 2026"," covers the whole landscape.",[15,90,92],{"id":91},"the-90-day-version","The 90-day version",[11,94,95],{},"If you are starting from zero, here is the plan in one list:",[97,98,99,107,113],"ul",{},[100,101,102,106],"li",{},[103,104,105],"strong",{},"Weeks 1 to 2:"," Pick one recurring event and one workspace. Put both on your calendar as non-negotiable.",[100,108,109,112],{},[103,110,111],{},"Weeks 3 to 8:"," Attend every week. Ship at one hackathon. Send five useful Twitter replies a week to founders in your space.",[100,114,115,118],{},[103,116,117],{},"Weeks 9 to 12:"," Convert. Ask the people you keep seeing for coffee. Ask everyone you click with for one introduction. Join or book a curated dinner.",[11,120,121],{},"The founders with the strongest networks in San Francisco are almost never the most charming people in the room. They are the ones who kept showing up to the same small rooms until showing up turned into belonging.",[15,123,125],{"id":124},"common-questions","Common questions",[11,127,128,131],{},[103,129,130],{},"How do I meet other founders in San Francisco?","\nSkip large mixers and commit to small, recurring formats: a weekly run club, a hackathon a quarter, a community workspace, and a curated dinner format. Repetition builds trust, and trust turns contacts into relationships you can call on.",[11,133,134,137],{},[103,135,136],{},"Where do startup founders hang out in San Francisco?","\nHayes Valley for the AI scene, Shack15 in the Ferry Building, South Park Commons for pre-idea explorers, hacker houses for demo nights, and the Embarcadero for run clubs. Most of it is organized on Luma and announced on Twitter first.",[11,139,140,143],{},[103,141,142],{},"How do I meet founders if I am new to San Francisco?","\nRun a 90-day plan: one recurring event every week, one hackathon, and one introduction requested from every person you click with. New arrivals overestimate the first month and underestimate the third.",[11,145,146,149],{},[103,147,148],{},"Are big networking events worth it for meeting founders?","\nOccasionally, but not as a primary strategy. Use them to source people, then move the relationship to a smaller container: a coffee, a run, a working session, a dinner table.",[15,151,153],{"id":152},"related-reading","Related reading",[97,155,156,162,167],{},[100,157,158],{},[23,159,161],{"href":160},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsan-francisco-founder-communities-2026","San Francisco founder communities compared",[100,163,164],{},[23,165,166],{"href":86},"San Francisco tech networking events 2026",[100,168,169],{},[23,170,171],{"href":81},"Founder dinners in San Francisco",{"title":173,"searchDepth":174,"depth":174,"links":175},"",2,[176,177,178,179,180,181,182,183,184,185],{"id":17,"depth":174,"text":18},{"id":30,"depth":174,"text":31},{"id":37,"depth":174,"text":38},{"id":44,"depth":174,"text":45},{"id":51,"depth":174,"text":52},{"id":58,"depth":174,"text":59},{"id":65,"depth":174,"text":66},{"id":91,"depth":174,"text":92},{"id":124,"depth":174,"text":125},{"id":152,"depth":174,"text":153},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-meet-founders-san-francisco","san-francisco","2026-08-28","How to meet founders in San Francisco: seven proven strategies, from recurring small events and hackathons to run clubs and curated founder dinners.","md",[192,194,196,198],{"q":130,"a":193},"Skip large mixers and commit to small, recurring formats: a weekly run club, a hackathon a quarter, a coworking or community space, and a curated dinner format like Founder Feast. Repetition builds trust, and trust is what turns a contact into a relationship you can actually call on.",{"q":136,"a":195},"Hayes Valley for the AI scene, the Ferry Building's Shack15 for entrepreneur workspace, South Park Commons for pre-idea explorers, hacker houses for demo nights, and the Embarcadero and Marina for run clubs. Most gatherings are organized on Luma and announced on Twitter before anywhere else.",{"q":142,"a":197},"Give yourself a 90-day plan: pick one recurring event you attend every week, ship something at one hackathon, and ask every person you click with for one introduction. New arrivals overestimate the first month and underestimate the third. Consistency beats charisma in this city.",{"q":148,"a":199},"Occasionally, but not as a primary strategy. Large events optimize for volume, and volume produces shallow contacts that rarely survive the week. Use them to source people, then move the relationship to a smaller container: a coffee, a run, a dinner table, a working session.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fsf-bridge-day.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-meet-founders-san-francisco",{"title":5,"description":189},"how-to-meet-founders-san-francisco","blog\u002Fhow-to-meet-founders-san-francisco","San Francisco","2026-09-22","7itSbCSoXf_j0nHpWSuZnXqTFHRzf6ufsPl5xH1TGok",[211,564,806],{"id":212,"title":213,"author":214,"body":215,"canonical":540,"city":187,"date":541,"description":542,"extension":190,"faq":543,"image":556,"meta":557,"navigation":202,"path":558,"seo":559,"slug":560,"stem":561,"tag":207,"updated":562,"__hash__":563},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-san-francisco.md","Timeleft San Francisco: Honest Review + Alternatives (2026)","Loic Bachellerie",{"type":8,"value":216,"toc":528},[217,220,223,227,230,233,236,239,243,246,249,252,255,259,262,265,268,272,275,278,281,284,288,291,294,302,306,444,448,456,463,466,470,473,478,480,486,492,498,504,506],[11,218,219],{},"Search \"Timeleft San Francisco\" and you mostly find TikToks of people walking\ninto a restaurant nervous and walking out delighted. Useful, but not the whole\npicture. This is the version with the price, the format and the complaints in\nit, written by people who run a different kind of dinner in the same city, so\nread it knowing where we sit.",[11,221,222],{},"Timeleft is an app that seats strangers together for dinner. You subscribe,\nanswer a personality quiz, and on a Wednesday it puts you at a restaurant table\nwith a small group of people you have never met. San Francisco is one of more\nthan forty US cities it runs in. The company is clear about what it is for:\nin its own words, it is not a dating app and not a networking event. It is a\ncure for big-city loneliness, and San Francisco, a city largely made of people\nwho moved here for a job, has plenty of that.",[15,224,226],{"id":225},"how-a-timeleft-night-works-in-san-francisco","How a Timeleft night works in San Francisco",[11,228,229],{},"The mechanics are the same everywhere, and they are built to take the planning\nout of your hands.",[11,231,232],{},"You fill in a personality questionnaire when you join. Timeleft then groups\nfour to six people for a Wednesday dinner, weighing personality, age range and\nthe language you want to speak. You can book as late as 13 hours before the\ntable sits down, so a same-week plan is realistic.",[11,234,235],{},"You do not choose your tablemates or the restaurant. The venue and a short\npreview of the group arrive shortly before the night: the App Store listing\nsays on the day, Timeleft's own blog says the day before, so treat it as late\nnotice either way. In San Francisco that matters more than it sounds. A table\nin North Beach is a different evening from one in the Outer Sunset if you live\nin Bernal Heights, and you will not know which you have until the day.",[11,237,238],{},"One Bay Area detail catches people out: Oakland and San José run as their own\nTimeleft cities. If you live in the East Bay but want to eat in the city, pick\nSan Francisco in the app, and budget for BART home.",[15,240,242],{"id":241},"what-it-costs-in-san-francisco-in-us-dollars","What it costs in San Francisco, in US dollars",[11,244,245],{},"There are two bills, and only one of them is on the app's pricing screen.",[11,247,248],{},"The subscription is $19.99 a month in the US. The App Store also lists plans at\n$46.99 and $62.99, which are the longer three and six month options and bring\nthe monthly cost down. Prices move with promotions, so check the app before\ntrusting this or any other blog post.",[11,250,251],{},"The subscription buys the matching, the reservation and the in-app icebreakers.\nIt does not buy dinner. You order and pay at the restaurant like any other\ntable. San Francisco is not a cheap place to eat out: once a main, one drink,\ncity tax and a 20 percent tip are on the bill, our estimate is $45 to $80 a\nhead, and more if the table orders to share.",[11,253,254],{},"So a month with two Timeleft dinners realistically runs about $110 to $180\nbefore you count a rideshare. That is fair value for two evenings out with new\npeople. It is also three to four times the subscription price, which is the\nnumber most people budget for. Auto-renewal is the other thing to watch: cancel\nin the app, and do it before the renewal date.",[15,256,258],{"id":257},"what-reviewers-say-about-it","What reviewers say about it",[11,260,261],{},"On Trustpilot Timeleft sits at 3.3 out of 5 across roughly 760 reviews, with\nnearly half five-star and about a quarter one-star. On the App Store it holds\n4.6 from more than 8,600 ratings. That split tells you something: most people\nhave a good night, and the ones who do not are loud about it.",[11,263,264],{},"The complaints repeat. Rooms too noisy for one conversation to hold, which in\nSan Francisco's shared-table, high-ceiling restaurants is a real risk. Groups\nthat did not feel like a fit on age or life stage. Location details arriving\ntoo late to plan around. And billing, mainly renewals people did not expect.",[11,266,267],{},"On the fit point, a 2025 Alta Journal dispatch followed one San Francisco\nTimeleft evening at a NoPa restaurant. The diners were split up by age, and\nthe first few minutes were awkward before the conversation found its feet in\nshared interests. That is roughly the arc the good reviews describe: a slow start,\nthen two hours you would not have had otherwise.",[15,269,271],{"id":270},"who-timeleft-suits-in-san-francisco","Who Timeleft suits in San Francisco",[11,273,274],{},"Newly arrived. If you moved for a job and your whole social life is your team,\nthis is the use case Timeleft was designed around, and it does it well.",[11,276,277],{},"Working remotely. A lot of San Francisco works from a kitchen table now. A\nWednesday booked by someone else is a cheap fix for weeks that go by without a\nconversation that is not on a call.",[11,279,280],{},"Tired of every table being about tech. This is the underrated one. In a city\nwhere dinner drifts to funding rounds by the second course, a table with a\nnurse, a teacher and a chef can be a genuine relief.",[11,282,283],{},"Give it three dinners before you judge it. One table is too small a sample.",[15,285,287],{"id":286},"where-it-falls-short-if-you-are-building-a-company","Where it falls short if you are building a company",[11,289,290],{},"San Francisco is the one city where a random Timeleft table has a decent chance\nof including someone in tech. That can look like a founder shortcut. It is not\nquite one.",[11,292,293],{},"\"Works in tech\" covers a product manager at a large company, a designer\nbetween jobs and a Series C engineer. None of them are wrong to be there, but\nif what you need this week is someone who has run out of runway, fired a\nco-founder or rewritten a pricing page three times, the odds of meeting them\nat a table matched on personality are low, and the odds they are at your stage\nare lower still.",[11,295,296,297,301],{},"The format also has no rule against pitching, and San Francisco tables can\ndrift into one. Timeleft is not built to stop that, and it is not a flaw that\nit does not: the product is doing the job it describes. The mistake is asking\nit to do a different job. Our longer ",[23,298,300],{"href":299},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-alternative-for-founders","Timeleft alternative guide","\ngoes through that trade-off in detail.",[15,303,305],{"id":304},"timeleft-vs-founder-feast-in-san-francisco","Timeleft vs Founder Feast in San Francisco",[307,308,309,323],"table",{},[310,311,312],"thead",{},[313,314,315,318,321],"tr",{},[316,317],"th",{},[316,319,320],{},"Timeleft",[316,322,6],{},[324,325,326,340,353,366,379,392,405,418,431],"tbody",{},[313,327,328,334,337],{},[329,330,331],"td",{},[103,332,333],{},"Who is at the table",[329,335,336],{},"Anyone who signs up, grouped by a personality quiz",[329,338,339],{},"Founders, investors and people building something real, every application read by a person",[313,341,342,347,350],{},[329,343,344],{},[103,345,346],{},"How you are matched",[329,348,349],{},"Algorithm, on personality, age range and language",[329,351,352],{},"By a person, on stage, industry and what you are working on",[313,354,355,360,363],{},[329,356,357],{},[103,358,359],{},"Night",[329,361,362],{},"Wednesday dinners, Tuesday women-only dinners",[329,364,365],{},"Every other Thursday, 7pm",[313,367,368,373,376],{},[329,369,370],{},[103,371,372],{},"Table size",[329,374,375],{},"Four to six",[329,377,378],{},"Five",[313,380,381,386,389],{},[329,382,383],{},[103,384,385],{},"Reveal",[329,387,388],{},"Venue and a group preview shortly before the night",[329,390,391],{},"Restaurant and tablemates 24 hours before",[313,393,394,399,402],{},[329,395,396],{},[103,397,398],{},"Where",[329,400,401],{},"Restaurants across the city",[329,403,404],{},"The Mission, Hayes Valley, SoMa, Dogpatch, North Beach and Nob Hill",[313,406,407,412,415],{},[329,408,409],{},[103,410,411],{},"Price",[329,413,414],{},"$19.99 USD a month, longer plans cheaper, plus your meal",[329,416,417],{},"$39.99 USD a month for every dinner you book, plus your meal",[313,419,420,425,428],{},[329,421,422],{},[103,423,424],{},"Between dinners",[329,426,427],{},"The next booking, plus drinks, coffees and runs",[329,429,430],{},"Your table's chat, the member directory and chat in the app",[313,432,433,438,441],{},[329,434,435],{},[103,436,437],{},"Built for",[329,439,440],{},"Friendship and social connection",[329,442,443],{},"Peers who understand what you are building, no pitching",[15,445,447],{"id":446},"the-other-ways-to-eat-with-strangers-in-san-francisco","The other ways to eat with strangers in San Francisco",[11,449,450,451,455],{},"The category is crowded here. Supper clubs, where the food is the point, and\nmember communities that bundle dinners into a clubhouse both run in the city.\nWe compared them in ",[23,452,454],{"href":453},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbest-dinner-clubs-san-francisco","the best dinner clubs in San Francisco",".",[11,457,458,459,462],{},"And then there is the founder version, which is ours. ",[23,460,461],{"href":72},"Founder Feast in San Francisco","\nseats a table of five every other Thursday at 7pm, in the neighbourhoods where\nfounders already eat. Everyone at the table applied and a person read the\napplication. You are matched on stage and industry rather than personality,\nand you see the restaurant and who is coming 24 hours before. Membership is\n$39.99 USD a month and covers every dinner you book, in San Francisco, Los\nAngeles and Vancouver. You pay the restaurant for what you eat, the same as\nTimeleft. The one rule is no pitching.",[11,464,465],{},"Coffees, runs and hikes hosted by members are there as well, as extras around\nthe dinner rather than instead of it.",[15,467,469],{"id":468},"the-verdict","The verdict",[11,471,472],{},"If you want more people in your San Francisco life, Timeleft is a good,\ninexpensive way to get them, as long as you budget for the meal and manage the\nsubscription. If you want people who do what you do, it is the wrong tool,\nthrough no fault of its own. Plenty of people use both: Wednesday for the city,\nThursday for the company.",[11,474,475,476,455],{},"The whole night, from application to the chat afterwards, is in our guide to\n",[23,477,82],{"href":81},[15,479,125],{"id":124},[11,481,482,485],{},[103,483,484],{},"What night does Timeleft run in San Francisco?","\nWednesday for the standard dinner. Women-only dinners run on Tuesdays.",[11,487,488,491],{},[103,489,490],{},"Can I bring a friend?","\nThe format assumes you come alone, and a pair changes the table. If you want\nto go together, a supper club is a better fit.",[11,493,494,497],{},[103,495,496],{},"Do I have to drink?","\nNo. Skipping alcohol is also the single biggest saving on the restaurant bill.",[11,499,500,503],{},[103,501,502],{},"Is Timeleft safe?","\nIt is a public restaurant, a booking under your name and a handful of other\npeople. Ordinary precautions apply: plan your ride home before you go, since\nthe venue can be anywhere in the city.",[15,505,153],{"id":152},[97,507,508,515,522],{},[100,509,510,514],{},[23,511,513],{"href":512},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-los-angeles","Timeleft in Los Angeles",", the same review for a city where the drive matters as much as the table.",[100,516,517,521],{},[23,518,520],{"href":519},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-vancouver","Timeleft in Vancouver",", the Canadian version.",[100,523,524,527],{},[23,525,526],{"href":203},"How to meet founders in San Francisco",", if the goal is peers rather than friends.",{"title":173,"searchDepth":174,"depth":174,"links":529},[530,531,532,533,534,535,536,537,538,539],{"id":225,"depth":174,"text":226},{"id":241,"depth":174,"text":242},{"id":257,"depth":174,"text":258},{"id":270,"depth":174,"text":271},{"id":286,"depth":174,"text":287},{"id":304,"depth":174,"text":305},{"id":446,"depth":174,"text":447},{"id":468,"depth":174,"text":469},{"id":124,"depth":174,"text":125},{"id":152,"depth":174,"text":153},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-san-francisco","2026-09-29","Timeleft in San Francisco, reviewed straight: the Wednesday format, what $19.99 a month really costs once dinner is added, the complaints, and the alternatives.",[544,547,550,553],{"q":545,"a":546},"Does Timeleft operate in San Francisco?","Yes. San Francisco is on Timeleft's list of US cities, and so are Oakland and San José, which run as separate cities in the app. Dinners are on Wednesday evenings, with women-only dinners on Tuesdays, and the app also lists drinks, coffees and runs.",{"q":548,"a":549},"How much does Timeleft cost in San Francisco?","The US subscription is $19.99 a month, and the App Store also lists longer plans at $46.99 and $62.99. That pays for the matching and the booking, not the meal. You pay the restaurant yourself, and in San Francisco a main, a drink, tax and tip realistically lands somewhere between $45 and $80 a head. Check the app for current prices before you subscribe.",{"q":551,"a":552},"How does Timeleft choose who you eat with in San Francisco?","You answer a personality questionnaire when you sign up, and Timeleft groups four to six people it expects to get along, using personality, age range and language. You do not pick the people or the restaurant. The venue and a preview of the group arrive shortly before the night.",{"q":554,"a":555},"Is Timeleft good for meeting founders in San Francisco?","Only by accident. Timeleft describes itself as neither a dating app nor a networking event, and it matches for a good social mix rather than for work. In San Francisco you may well sit next to someone in tech, but that is not the same as someone building a company at your stage. If peers are the goal, a vetted founder table gets you there more directly.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fsf-downtown.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftimeleft-san-francisco",{"title":213,"description":542},"timeleft-san-francisco","blog\u002Ftimeleft-san-francisco",null,"x7wy9xXnB6OEU8fob9iwcOm5WNwXRR7X4zzgQUMiHF8",{"id":565,"title":566,"author":6,"body":567,"canonical":789,"city":187,"date":790,"description":791,"extension":190,"faq":792,"image":799,"meta":800,"navigation":202,"path":801,"seo":802,"slug":803,"stem":804,"tag":207,"updated":208,"__hash__":805},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco.md","Canadian Founders Moving to San Francisco: What Changes, What Does Not",{"type":8,"value":568,"toc":775},[569,572,576,579,584,587,590,594,602,605,609,612,616,619,627,630,634,637,657,660,664,667,687,690,694,697,704,724,727,731,737,740,743,748,750,756,762,768],[11,570,571],{},"Moving to San Francisco as a founder is a different decision when your passport is Canadian. You are not choosing a city. You are choosing a country, a legal structure, a tax residency and a health insurance plan, while trying to keep a company alive. This is the honest checklist: what actually changes when a Canadian founder lands in San Francisco, what stays as it was, and the one problem nobody warns you about until you are sitting alone in a SoMa cafe on a Thursday night.",[15,573,575],{"id":574},"what-changes-when-you-are-moving-to-san-francisco-as-a-founder","What changes when you are moving to San Francisco as a founder",[11,577,578],{},"Three things change on the day you land, and all three deserve a professional rather than a blog post.",[580,581,583],"h3",{"id":582},"immigration-is-a-lawyers-job-not-a-forums","Immigration is a lawyer's job, not a forum's",[11,585,586],{},"Canadian founders talk about the same handful of visa categories: TN, O-1, E-2, L-1 and H-1B. Each has a different logic. Some are tied to an employer, some to your track record, some to an investment, some to an existing company abroad. Which one fits depends on your role, your company's structure and your history, and the answer for your cofounder may differ from yours.",[11,588,589],{},"We are not going to tell you which one to use. Nobody who is not your lawyer should. Book the immigration lawyer before you book the flight, bring your cap table and incorporation documents to the first call, and ask what has to be true about your company for the category you hope for. The structure and the visa are often the same conversation.",[580,591,593],{"id":592},"the-c-corp-and-delaware-question","The C-corp and Delaware question",[11,595,596,597,601],{},"Every Canadian founder gets asked, usually by an American, whether they have flipped yet. The question hides a real decision. A Delaware C-corp is the structure most US investors know how to fund, and some will not fund anything else. But a flip is not free: legal costs, tax consequences on the Canadian side, and a change in which programs your company qualifies for. Our guide to the ",[23,598,600],{"href":599},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdelaware-flip-canadian-founders","Delaware flip for Canadian founders"," walks through the mechanics and the trade-offs, and it is worth reading before you sit down with anyone who bills by the hour.",[11,603,604],{},"The short version: do not flip because someone at a party said you should. Flip when a specific investor or customer makes it necessary, and let a cross-border accountant and a lawyer tell you how.",[580,606,608],{"id":607},"the-cost-of-living-without-the-numbers","The cost of living, without the numbers",[11,610,611],{},"You already know San Francisco is expensive. Rent is the line item that surprises Canadian founders most, because even Vancouver and Toronto do not prepare you for it, and because it is priced in a currency your revenue may not be in yet. We are not going to print a rent figure that will be wrong by the time you read this. Look at current listings for the neighbourhoods below, do the math in US dollars, and add a margin for health insurance and an apartment deposit when you have no US credit history. If your company still earns in Canadian dollars, a personal life in US dollars is a currency position whether you meant to take one or not. Ask your accountant how to think about it.",[15,613,615],{"id":614},"what-does-not-change","What does not change",[11,617,618],{},"The company is still the company. The product still has to work. The customers who bought from you in Calgary or Montreal did not notice you moved. That sounds obvious, but the move has a way of making founders feel they have to start over, and you do not.",[11,620,621,622,626],{},"Most Canadian founders who move to San Francisco keep their Canadian entity and team, at least for a while. Engineering stays where it was hired, where the company has history and payroll runs in the currency it already spends. The founder moves to be close to customers and investors. That split is common and it works, but someone has to decide where the founder is a tax resident, how the two sides of the company relate, and what the first US hire triggers. Our post on ",[23,623,625],{"href":624},"\u002Fblog\u002Fus-market-entry-canadian-startups","US market entry for Canadian startups"," covers what actually forces a US footprint, and it will make your first call with an accountant shorter.",[11,628,629],{},"Your Canadian network does not vanish either. The investors and founders who knew you at home are one flight away. Keep them warm: they are your reference checks, and your bridge back if the US does not work out.",[15,631,633],{"id":632},"where-founders-live-and-work-in-san-francisco","Where founders live and work in San Francisco",[11,635,636],{},"San Francisco is small enough that neighbourhood choice is really a choice about who you bump into.",[97,638,639,645,651],{},[100,640,641,644],{},[103,642,643],{},"SoMa is the office district."," South of Market holds a heavy concentration of venture-backed companies, much of the city's coworking space, and Caltrain for trips down the Peninsula. It is where you go to work more than where you live.",[100,646,647,650],{},[103,648,649],{},"Hayes Valley is the AI district."," It picked up the nickname Cerebral Valley for a reason: hacker houses, AI meetups and a constant stream of founders building on the current generation of models. If your company is AI-first, this is where the density is.",[100,652,653,656],{},[103,654,655],{},"The Mission, Dogpatch and Potrero Hill are where founders live."," Good food, more sun than most of the city, and a high concentration of people building something. Dogpatch and Potrero Hill in particular have become a cluster for founders coming through the big accelerators.",[11,658,659],{},"Pick the neighbourhood that matches the founders you want to be around, then find a desk within walking distance. Your first month is about being in the room.",[15,661,663],{"id":662},"the-paperwork-that-is-nobodys-fault-but-yours","The paperwork that is nobody's fault but yours",[11,665,666],{},"None of this is advice. It is a list of topics Canadian founders wish someone had told them to ask about earlier.",[97,668,669,675,681],{},[100,670,671,674],{},[103,672,673],{},"Tax residency, on both sides."," Leaving Canada can trigger what the CRA calls a deemed disposition, usually shortened to departure tax, and arriving in the US starts a different clock. The Canada-US tax treaty sorts out who taxes what, but it does not apply itself. Ask a cross-border accountant what your departure date means and what to file in the year you move.",[100,676,677,680],{},[103,678,679],{},"Health insurance."," Provincial coverage ends when you leave, and US coverage does not start on its own. Ask what your visa status allows and what your company can offer, so the gap does not fall in the month you move.",[100,682,683,686],{},[103,684,685],{},"Credit and banking."," Your Canadian credit history does not follow you across the border in any useful way. Ask your bank about cross-border accounts before you leave, and ask your landlord what they accept instead of a US credit score.",[11,688,689],{},"Each of these has a professional whose job is to answer it. The mistake is not asking until something breaks.",[15,691,693],{"id":692},"the-real-problem-arriving-with-no-network","The real problem: arriving with no network",[11,695,696],{},"Here is the part the checklists skip. At home, you knew people: the angel who backs companies like yours, the founder two years ahead of you. In San Francisco you know nobody, and the city's famous density is no use to you until you are inside it.",[11,698,699,700,703],{},"The obvious move is events, and San Francisco has no shortage of them. But a 200-person mixer is a poor tool for the problem you have, which is not meeting people once but being known by them. We wrote up the approaches that work in ",[23,701,702],{"href":203},"how to meet founders in San Francisco",", and the thread through all of them is repetition: small rooms, the same people, week after week.",[11,705,706,707,713,714,719,720,723],{},"There are Canadian-specific doors too. ",[23,708,712],{"href":709,"rel":710},"https:\u002F\u002Fthec100.org\u002F",[711],"nofollow","C100"," is a community of Canadians in tech, headquartered in San Francisco, with membership by sponsorship from existing members. The Trade Commissioner Service runs ",[23,715,718],{"href":716,"rel":717},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tradecommissioner.gc.ca\u002Fen\u002Four-solutions\u002Fsupport-programs\u002Fcanadian-technology-accelerators.html",[711],"Canadian Technology Accelerators"," in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for Canadian companies with an established product. Both are selective, and both are about your company more than your week. Our comparison of ",[23,721,722],{"href":160},"San Francisco founder communities"," covers the broader landscape.",[11,725,726],{},"What none of them give you is a fixed point in the week.",[15,728,730],{"id":729},"how-thursday-dinners-fix-that-in-weeks","How Thursday dinners fix that in weeks",[11,732,733,734,736],{},"Founder Feast is a dinner club for founders. We started in Vancouver with Thursday dinners, and dinners now run in ",[23,735,207],{"href":72}," and Los Angeles too. Every other Thursday at 7pm, five hand-picked founders sit at one table at a restaurant we choose. The restaurant and the four other founders are revealed the day before. You do not pick your tablemates, and that is the point: you sit with founders you would not have found on your own. No panels, no badges, no pitches. Sell to the table and you are not invited back.",[11,738,739],{},"For a founder who landed a month ago, that does two things. It gives you a fixed point: every other Thursday is spoken for, and in a city where every evening could be an event, that is worth more than it sounds. And it puts you across the table from founders you did not choose. Four dinners in, you have eaten with four sets of founders across stages and sectors, and in San Francisco the introductions that matter come from other founders, who make them for people they have eaten with.",[11,741,742],{},"The weeks in between fill in around it. Your table keeps talking in its own chat after the bill, and every vetted member is reachable through the directory and member-to-member chat in the app, on iOS, Android and the web, and seasonal events and special offers are kept for members. The dinner is the main event. The rest grows out of it.",[11,744,745,746,455],{},"Membership is $39.99 USD a month and covers your seat at every dinner. You pay the restaurant for what you eat on the night. Cancel anytime. You apply once, every member is vetted before they sit down, and that filter is most of the product. For how a dinner night runs start to finish, read our post on ",[23,747,82],{"href":81},[15,749,125],{"id":124},[11,751,752,755],{},[103,753,754],{},"Which visa do Canadian founders use to move to San Francisco?","\nThere is no single answer. Founders commonly discuss the TN, O-1, E-2, L-1 and H-1B categories, and the right one depends on your role, your company structure and your history. Founder Feast does not give immigration advice: talk to an immigration lawyer before you make plans around any of them.",[11,757,758,761],{},[103,759,760],{},"Do I need a Delaware C-corp before moving to San Francisco as a founder?","\nNot automatically. Some US investors expect one and some do not, and a flip has costs and tax consequences on the Canadian side. Read the trade-offs, then take the question to a cross-border accountant and a lawyer before you file anything.",[11,763,764,767],{},[103,765,766],{},"How do I build a founder network in San Francisco from zero?","\nSit with founders regularly, in small groups, without an agenda. Founder Feast runs founder dinners in San Francisco every other Thursday: five hand-picked founders per table at a restaurant chosen for you, revealed 24 hours before. Membership is $39.99 USD a month, you apply once at founderfeast.com\u002Fapply, and every member is vetted.",[11,769,770,771,774],{},"The visa, the structure and the lease will get sorted, one professional at a time. The network is the part you can start this week. ",[23,772,773],{"href":76},"Apply to Founder Feast",", and your first Thursday in San Francisco will not be a Thursday alone.",{"title":173,"searchDepth":174,"depth":174,"links":776},[777,783,784,785,786,787,788],{"id":574,"depth":174,"text":575,"children":778},[779,781,782],{"id":582,"depth":780,"text":583},3,{"id":592,"depth":780,"text":593},{"id":607,"depth":780,"text":608},{"id":614,"depth":174,"text":615},{"id":632,"depth":174,"text":633},{"id":662,"depth":174,"text":663},{"id":692,"depth":174,"text":693},{"id":729,"depth":174,"text":730},{"id":124,"depth":174,"text":125},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco","2026-09-14","Moving to San Francisco as a founder from Canada: the visa and C-corp questions to take to a professional, where founders live, and how to build a network in weeks.",[793,795,797],{"q":754,"a":794},"There is no single answer. Founders commonly discuss the TN, O-1, E-2, L-1 and H-1B categories, and the right one depends on your role, your company structure and your history. Founder Feast does not give immigration advice: talk to an immigration lawyer before you make plans around any of them.",{"q":760,"a":796},"Not automatically. Some US investors expect one and some do not, and a flip has costs and tax consequences on the Canadian side. Read the trade-offs, then take the question to a cross-border accountant and a lawyer before you file anything.",{"q":766,"a":798},"Sit with founders regularly, in small groups, without an agenda. Founder Feast runs founder dinners in San Francisco every other Thursday: five hand-picked founders per table at a restaurant chosen for you, revealed 24 hours before. Membership is $39.99 USD a month, you apply once at founderfeast.com\u002Fapply, and every member is vetted.","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco.jpg",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcanadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco",{"title":566,"description":791},"canadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco","blog\u002Fcanadian-founders-moving-to-san-francisco","dOLiqDCJpCgjoK6-aXRRGpw3TYbc8wYB3_UxlhlwTic",{"id":807,"title":808,"author":6,"body":809,"canonical":1012,"city":187,"date":790,"description":1013,"extension":190,"faq":1014,"image":556,"meta":1023,"navigation":202,"path":1024,"seo":1025,"slug":1026,"stem":1027,"tag":207,"updated":208,"__hash__":1028},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-a-cofounder-san-francisco.md","How to Find a Cofounder in San Francisco in 2026: Search, Vet, Commit",{"type":8,"value":810,"toc":1000},[811,814,818,821,861,865,868,871,877,881,884,888,891,895,898,902,905,909,912,938,946,950,953,961,964,967,969,975,981,987,993],[11,812,813],{},"San Francisco has more people looking for a cofounder than any city on earth, and most of them are looking in the wrong order. They start with a profile, move to a video call, and try to decide in an hour whether to spend a decade with a stranger. If you want to find a cofounder in San Francisco in 2026, the search has to run the other way: get into a few rooms where people are already building, see the same faces for weeks, and let the decision come from evidence rather than a good first impression. This guide covers where those rooms are, why repeat exposure beats one-off matching, how to vet someone over a month, and what to settle before anyone says the word equity.",[15,815,817],{"id":816},"where-founders-actually-find-a-cofounder-in-san-francisco","Where founders actually find a cofounder in San Francisco",[11,819,820],{},"The honest map has four kinds of rooms. Each gives you a different quality of signal, and the best searches use all four in sequence: platforms to source, hackathons and working sessions to watch people build, and small dinners to see who they are when nobody is performing.",[97,822,823,840,846,855],{},[100,824,825,828,829,834,835,839],{},[103,826,827],{},"Matching platforms, used as a starting point."," Y Combinator runs a free ",[23,830,833],{"href":831,"rel":832},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.startupschool.org\u002Fcofounder-matching",[711],"co-founder matching platform"," inside Startup School. You write a profile, set what you are looking for by skills and location, and the platform suggests people who fit. It is the most credible of the matching tools and worth an afternoon to set up properly. The mistake is treating a match as a decision. Treat it as a way to source first conversations, then move every promising one offline as fast as you can. If you are a Canadian founder weighing the YC route itself, our post on ",[23,836,838],{"href":837},"\u002Fblog\u002Fy-combinator-canada","Y Combinator for Canadian founders"," covers what the program asks of you.",[100,841,842,845],{},[103,843,844],{},"Hackathons and build weekends."," Hayes Valley picked up the nickname Cerebral Valley for a reason: the AI hackathons, demo nights and hacker houses clustered there are where technical people show what they can do in a weekend rather than describe it. Go to build, not to network. Join a team where you carry real weight, ship something rough, and demo it. You will learn more about a potential cofounder in a weekend of shipping than in ten coffees.",[100,847,848,851,852,854],{},[103,849,850],{},"Working sessions and shared desks."," Coworking spaces and hacker houses fill with founders who are between things or early into something. The move is to pick one and make it your default: work there daily, take your calls there, eat lunch in the shared space. Cofounder pairs form from adjacent desks far more often than from introductions, because you have already watched each other work before the question ever comes up. Our guide on ",[23,853,702],{"href":203}," names the recurring formats worth committing to.",[100,856,857,860],{},[103,858,859],{},"Small dinners."," A table of five founders for the length of a dinner is the format that reveals character. Nobody can hold a pitch that long, so what comes out is how people think, what they admit, and how they treat the person across from them.",[15,862,864],{"id":863},"why-repeat-exposure-beats-one-off-matching","Why repeat exposure beats one-off matching",[11,866,867],{},"The failed cofounder story usually has the same shape: two people who liked each other on a call, committed inside a month, and met the real person in month four. The fix is not better questions on the first call. It is more encounters before the commitment.",[11,869,870],{},"Repeat exposure does three things a one-off cannot. It shows you consistency: does the person who was sharp on a Tuesday show up the same way three weeks later? It gives you context: mutual acquaintances, other projects, how they talk about former collaborators. And it lets the relationship start at depth instead of at introductions, because by the fifth encounter you are no longer pitching yourselves to each other.",[11,872,873,874,876],{},"So structure the search around recurring rooms. A working session you attend every week, a build night you never miss, a dinner table that changes every other Thursday. Before anything goes on your calendar, ask whether the same people will be there next time. If the answer is no, downgrade it. Our guide to ",[23,875,87],{"href":86}," sorts the calendar by exactly that test.",[15,878,880],{"id":879},"how-to-vet-a-cofounder-over-weeks","How to vet a cofounder over weeks",[11,882,883],{},"Once someone is a candidate, slow down. You are choosing the person you will spend more waking hours with than anyone else in your life, and the information you need takes weeks to surface. Three moves get you most of it.",[580,885,887],{"id":886},"run-a-trial-project","Run a trial project",[11,889,890],{},"Agree on something real and bounded: a prototype, a customer discovery sprint, a landing page with a waitlist behind it. Give it a scope, a deadline three or four weeks out, and a named end point where either of you can walk away with no hard feelings. Then work the way you would if you had already committed. You are watching how they estimate, how they communicate when they slip, whether they do what they said, and whether the work is good. Nothing on a profile tells you any of that.",[580,892,894],{"id":893},"watch-a-bad-week","Watch a bad week",[11,896,897],{},"Everyone is pleasant when the demo works. What you need to see is a bad week: a customer who goes quiet, a build that breaks the night before, a real disagreement about direction. If the trial project does not produce one on its own, walk through a bad week from their past in detail. How someone describes former collaborators when things went wrong tells you how they will describe you.",[580,899,901],{"id":900},"ask-the-people-who-have-worked-with-them","Ask the people who have worked with them",[11,903,904],{},"Not the references they hand you. People you find on your own, through the mutual connections that repeat exposure produces. One honest conversation with a former teammate is worth more than any amount of self-description. Ask specifically what it was like to disagree with them.",[15,906,908],{"id":907},"the-conversations-to-have-before-equity","The conversations to have before equity",[11,910,911],{},"Equity is the last conversation, not the first, and it goes badly when the ones before it were skipped. Before anyone talks percentages, get clear answers on four things.",[97,913,914,920,926,932],{},[100,915,916,919],{},[103,917,918],{},"Money and time."," How long can each of you go without a salary, and are you both full-time from day one? A quiet mismatch here does more damage than any product decision.",[100,921,922,925],{},[103,923,924],{},"Roles and decisions."," Agree on who owns what, who breaks a tie, and what happens when one of you is wrong about something big.",[100,927,928,931],{},[103,929,930],{},"Ambition and outcome."," Do you both want the same size of company, on roughly the same timeline, with the same appetite for raising money?",[100,933,934,937],{},[103,935,936],{},"Leaving."," What happens if one of you leaves in the first year? Saying it out loud early, while it is hypothetical, is the whole point.",[11,939,940,941,945],{},"Our Canada guide on ",[23,942,944],{"href":943},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-a-cofounder-canada","how to find a cofounder"," has the full list of questions and the equity frameworks most founders use. When you reach the paperwork, the topics to put in front of a startup lawyer are vesting schedules, the cliff, IP assignment, and where to incorporate. None of that is advice you should take from a blog post, including this one. Get it from someone who signs their name to it.",[15,947,949],{"id":948},"why-five-vetted-founders-beat-a-200-person-mixer","Why five vetted founders beat a 200-person mixer",[11,951,952],{},"Think of the search as sampling. At a mixer, the sample is self-selected: the people who approach you are the ones optimizing for reach, and you get ninety seconds each. At a table of five, someone else has already vetted everyone, the conversation lasts the whole meal, and the founders you would never have approached are sitting across from you anyway.",[11,954,955,956,958,959,455],{},"That is why we built ",[23,957,6],{"href":72}," the way we did. Every other Thursday at 7pm, five hand-picked founders sit down at a restaurant we choose. The restaurant and the four other founders are revealed the day before. You do not pick your table, which is exactly the property a cofounder search needs: you sit with founders you would not have found on your own, and every one of them was vetted before they sat down. Dinners started in Vancouver, and now run every other Thursday in San Francisco and Los Angeles too. The full night, start to finish, is in our guide to ",[23,960,82],{"href":81},[11,962,963],{},"Membership is $39.99 USD a month and covers your seat at every dinner. You pay the restaurant for what you eat on the night, and you can cancel anytime. You apply once, and every member is vetted before they sit down. For a cofounder search, the rest of the membership matters as much as the dinner. Your table keeps talking in its own chat after the bill, which is where a second and third conversation happen without anyone engineering it. The member directory and member-to-member chat in the app let you follow up with anyone you have sat with. The app is on the iOS App Store and Google Play, and the same member area works on the web.",[11,965,966],{},"We do not promise you a cofounder. Nobody honest can. What a standing table gives you is the thing the search actually runs on: a new sample of vetted founders at every dinner you book, and enough repeat exposure across the membership to know who you would build with before you have to decide.",[15,968,125],{"id":124},[11,970,971,974],{},[103,972,973],{},"Where do founders find a cofounder in San Francisco?","\nIn rooms where people are already building: hackathons and build weekends, coworking spaces and hacker houses, working sessions, and small curated dinners. Matching platforms such as Y Combinator's co-founder matching are useful for sourcing first conversations, but the decision should come from weeks of working together, not from a profile and a call.",[11,976,977,980],{},[103,978,979],{},"How long should I take to vet a cofounder?","\nWeeks, not days. Run a bounded trial project of three or four weeks with a clear end point, watch how the person handles a bad week, and talk to people who have worked with them before. The problems that end partnerships usually show up in the first month of working together, if you are looking for them.",[11,982,983,986],{},[103,984,985],{},"What should we agree on before splitting equity?","\nRunway and time commitment, roles and who breaks a tie, the size of outcome you each want, and what happens if one of you leaves early. Put vesting, the cliff, IP assignment and where to incorporate in front of a startup lawyer rather than settling them from a blog post.",[11,988,989,992],{},[103,990,991],{},"Can Founder Feast help me find a cofounder in San Francisco?","\nFounder Feast is a dinner club, not a matching service, and we do not promise a cofounder. What it gives you is a table of five vetted founders every other Thursday at 7pm in San Francisco, chosen for you, plus your table's chat and a member directory between dinners. Membership is $39.99 USD a month, covers your seat at every dinner, and you can cancel anytime.",[11,994,995,996,999],{},"If you are building in San Francisco and want the search to run on evidence instead of first impressions, ",[23,997,998],{"href":76},"apply for membership",". It takes a few minutes, every application gets read, and once you are in you book the Thursdays that work for you.",{"title":173,"searchDepth":174,"depth":174,"links":1001},[1002,1003,1004,1009,1010,1011],{"id":816,"depth":174,"text":817},{"id":863,"depth":174,"text":864},{"id":879,"depth":174,"text":880,"children":1005},[1006,1007,1008],{"id":886,"depth":780,"text":887},{"id":893,"depth":780,"text":894},{"id":900,"depth":780,"text":901},{"id":907,"depth":174,"text":908},{"id":948,"depth":174,"text":949},{"id":124,"depth":174,"text":125},"https:\u002F\u002Ffounderfeast.com\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-a-cofounder-san-francisco","How to find a cofounder in San Francisco in 2026: where the search actually happens, why repeat exposure beats matching, and how to vet someone over weeks.",[1015,1017,1019,1021],{"q":973,"a":1016},"In rooms where people are already building: hackathons and build weekends, coworking spaces and hacker houses, working sessions, and small curated dinners. Matching platforms such as Y Combinator's co-founder matching are useful for sourcing first conversations, but the decision should come from weeks of working together, not from a profile and a call.",{"q":979,"a":1018},"Weeks, not days. Run a bounded trial project of three or four weeks with a clear end point, watch how the person handles a bad week, and talk to people who have worked with them before. The problems that end partnerships usually show up in the first month of working together, if you are looking for them.",{"q":985,"a":1020},"Runway and time commitment, roles and who breaks a tie, the size of outcome you each want, and what happens if one of you leaves early. Put vesting, the cliff, IP assignment and where to incorporate in front of a startup lawyer rather than settling them from a blog post.",{"q":991,"a":1022},"Founder Feast is a dinner club, not a matching service, and we do not promise a cofounder. What it gives you is a table of five vetted founders every other Thursday at 7pm in San Francisco, chosen for you, plus your table's chat and a member directory between dinners. Membership is $39.99 USD a month, covers your seat at every dinner, and you can cancel anytime.",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-find-a-cofounder-san-francisco",{"title":808,"description":1013},"how-to-find-a-cofounder-san-francisco","blog\u002Fhow-to-find-a-cofounder-san-francisco","iaQh0F4Ov1HVjGq2PkQeyZ-BzfnKNxRhSVwtIf3eNuU"]