Future Minds community

Build with people who get it.

A small community of ambitious young founders building products, growing teams and figuring out what comes next — together.

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Future Minds Community

Meet the world’s most ambitious young founders

A small group of founders under 30 who actually see each other. They have raised rounds, shipped products, built teams and won things most people twice their age have not.

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Nathaniel Diong

Founder @ Future Minds | Forbes 30 Under 30

Klau Pakos

CEO @ Lafiya | Supported over 1 million women through FP

Niyati Sharma

CEO @ Pratisandhi |Forbes 30 Under 30

Kurt Jones

CEO @ Co-Exist | Young Australian of the Year finalist

Geena Dunne

CEO @ The Cova Project | Raised $2.5M to end period poverty

Hadiqa Bashir

Director @ Girls United for Human Rights | United Nations Youth Leader for the SDGs

Sagalee Omer

CEO @ Shooters Shoot | Australian Minister for Youth’s Awardee

Ashleigh Streeter-Jones

CEO @ Raise Our Voice Australia |ACT Women of the Year

Yuma Soerianto

Founder @ Anyone Can Code | Apple's youngest WWDC winner at 10 yo

Jefferson Chen

Co-founder @ Lafiya | Commonwealth Young Person of the Year Awardee

01 — Always on

Meet like-minded people who actually reply.

People building right now, not people who built something once. People who'll answer at 11pm because they're up too. People who won't perform at you, won't pitch you, and won't pretend the numbers are better than they are.

It's a group chat, and that's deliberately unglamorous. Intros, hiring, a pricing page nobody can make sense of, someone landing in Lisbon on Tuesday with a free evening. Fast enough to be worth opening, slow enough that you won't mute it.

Tap an answer

MEMBERS · (N) ONLINE

[MEMBER 3]

Anyone know a contract lawyer who doesn't charge startup tax?

YOU

Can someone look at my pricing page?

[MEMBER 5]

Send it over. I'll mark it up tonight.

YOU

Looking for a technical co-founder

[MEMBER 2]

Two people come to mind. Both under 30. Intro coming.

YOU

How do I answer 'what's your traction'?

[Member 9]

Say the real number, then say the rate. Never the vanity one.

Can someone look at my pricing page?

Looking for a technical co-founder

How do I answer 'what's your traction'?

02 — Weekly

Four people who remember what you said last month.

You get put in a small group with founders at roughly your stage. Every week you say what you're going to do. The next week you say whether you did it. That's the whole mechanism, and there isn't a clever part.

It's the least exciting thing we run and by a distance the most effective. Momentum is much easier to borrow from four people who notice when you go quiet than to manufacture alone at 11pm.

Tick one yourself

MASTERMIND · WEEK [N]

Ship the pricing page

MEMBER 1

SAID LAST WEEK

Talk to 5 customers

MEMBER 2

SAID LAST WEEK

Send the investor update

MEMBER 3

SAID LAST WEEK

Actually take a day off

MEMBER 4

SAID LAST WEEK

1 of 4 Done This Week

03 — EVERY FEW MONTHS

Twenty people, one long table, no panel.

We seat twenty. One question goes around to start and after that it runs itself, usually past the point where the restaurant would like us to leave.

Nobody pitches. Nobody presents. The only rule is that you have to say the true version of how it's going, which is harder than it sounds and is exactly why people come back.

Hover a seat — every one is a member

DINNER · [MONTH] SEATING

SEATS

(Member 1) (Founder, Company)

(Member 2) (Co-Founder, Company)

(Member 3) (Founder, Company)

(Member 4) (CEO, Company)

(Member 5) (Managing Director, Company)

(Member 6) (Director, Company)

(Member 7) (Entrepreneur, Company)

(Member 8) (Investor, Company)

(Member 9) (Partner, Company)

(Member 10) (Marketing Head, Company)

(Member 11) (Product Head, Company)

(Member 12) (Technology Head, Company)

(Member 13) (Operations Head, Company)

(Member 14) (Creative Director, Company)

(Member 15) (Business Head, Company)

(Member 16) (Strategy Lead, Company)

(Member 17) (Innovation Lead, Company)

(Member 18) (Community Lead, Company)

(Member 19) (Program Director, Company)

(Member 20) (Founder & CEO, Company)

04— Twice a Month

A desk, and nobody asking what you do for work.

Once ever few months, we take over a space and just work. No talks, no name tags, no agenda. Turn up when it suits you and skip it when it doesn't — it's the most optional thing we run.

The useful part is never the working. It's the twenty minutes at lunch where someone looks at the thing you've been stuck on for a fortnight and says the obvious sentence you couldn't see.

[Melbourne] · free for members · dates move

COWORKING · THIS MONTH

Members

Why they keep turning up.

“Future Minds gave me the perfect support I needed to launch my business. I wouldn't have been able to do it myself."