Forward Thinking City

Building Silicon Valley in the cloud

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Forward Thinking City is a virtual city for anyone to join and break into startups. In the city, any founder is able to join our Slack community, request intros to VCs in our community, and attend one of dozens of events we put on weekly.
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Mat Sherman
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I started my podcast, Forward Thinking Founders, almost two years ago. I was a nobody in tech, but through 350 interviews with the likes of Austen Allred, Eric Ries, Kristen Anderson and many more, I slowly broke into SF in the cloud. Two months ago, I thought "why couldn't I enable this for anyone in the world?". So, enter Forward Thinking City. Forward Thinking City is a place for any founder to come, join, contribute, and learn from the most talented group of founders I've been a part of in recent years. In Forward Thinking City, you can: - Attend one of dozens of events every week, like our founder AMAs - Engage with other residents on Slack - Request an intro to VCs in our network - Do office hours with city leaders - Get access to our paid substack, for free. The whole point of Forward Thinking City is what if we could lower the barrier to break into startups, for anyone in the world? This is not an invite only platform. This is not exclusive. We are open to all who are ready to join, I will see you on the other side.
Nathan Barry
@mat_sherman Congrats on the launch!
Anthony Mattana
Hooke Lav
@mat_sherman Congrats Mat! Looking forward to speaking with you :-)
Luis Antezana
@mat_sherman Nice work, Mat
Dylan Brookes
I think this has a lot of potential. Are you planning to help people find investors / access to capital as well?
Mat Sherman
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@dylan_brookes Hey, absolutely thanks for asking. We have a tool that we built called "intro". The idea is that you request an intro to any investor you want, and we accept the intro and send it to the VC, or reject it and send you feedback. You can access this feature, once you become a resident, right here: https://www.forwardthinking.city...
Stuart Sim
I've been a member of FTC for a month or so now, Mat has been very generous with his time and provided great feedback to me on my business and ideas. Very pumped to watch this community grow and transform. Worth the upvote, and more importantly, worth subscribing to!
Mat Sherman
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@stusim Stuart, you are the man! I have loved getting to know you over the last several months and really enjoy having you as a resident. Here's to the next year in the city!
Leanne Beesley
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I bought a paid subscription to Mat’s Forward Thinking City newsletter when he started it earlier this year and it is hands down, by far, THE BEST email newsletter I’ve signed up for. It’s a mix of breaking news in the tech/startup/VC world with a really funny + insightful commentary and perspectives from Mat. A bit like Pando Daily was in its heyday, but even better. Given that the newsletter is seriously that good, I suspect this bigger platform will be even better - congrats on the launch, Mat!
Mat Sherman
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@leanne_beesley This means SOOO much coming from you. Thank you! I am glad you love the newsletter!!
Andreea Bunica
Awesome! I'm running a hardware startup from home and as a non-us based solo founder, this experience is super alienating. Really great initiative and can't wait to try it.
Megan Matthees
@andreea_bunica We can't wait to have you!
Mat Sherman
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@andreea_bunica Hey, we are glad to have you! DM on Twitter if you have any questions :) --> twitter.com/mat_sherman
Andrew Jernigan
Mat is a pioneer, a visionary and leader who invests in founders. As a resident of Forward Thinking City I'm very optimistic about the future of the ecosystem.
Mat Sherman
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@jernigan Andrew, I REALLY appreciate your nice words. I am glad to have you as a resident in the city!
Neehar Cherabuddi
Great for folks who move out of the bay area and still want to meet like minded people
Mat Sherman
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@neeharcgmailcom Hey Neehar, I really appreciate you saying that. I would have to agree :)
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