02 · The Founder Lab

Your future co-founder
may already be in the room.

Seventy-five minutes on Saturday. How founders think, then time to find your people.

The Global 60 Saturday  ·  3:15 – 4:30 PM
Not a gimmick

Nobody is asked to invent a company in forty-five minutes.

People who build things together usually meet by accident. The Global 60 removes the accident.

01 The structure

Learn. Find a problem.
Meet complementary people.
Continue after New York.

  1. Learn · 15 to 20 minutesA founder's practical story. Problems, validation, customers, early teams.
  2. Find a problemName the area you care about.
  3. The Problem MarketplaceFind the people who care about the same problem and carry different skills.
  4. Continue after New YorkTeams that form are supported through the Global 60 Network.
02 Two ways to read it

For the student, aspiration.
For the parent, a curriculum.

The student version

  • Hear how a real business started, from someone who started one
  • Say out loud what you want to build, to people who might help
  • Find a co-founder with the skills you do not have
  • Leave New York with a problem, a team, and a next step

The parent version

  • Entrepreneurial thinking: problems before products
  • Problem solving and validation, taught as method
  • Teamwork with peers from other countries and schools
  • Commercial awareness: customers, costs, basic economics
  • Communication: explaining an idea clearly to a stranger

One seventy-five minute session inside a Model United Nations conference. It does not replace committee time.

Build what comes next.

The application asks what you are building, or hoping to build. It is fine not to know yet.

Apply for the 2027 cohort › The Gala ›