Our Learning Labs and LabXs (taking a cue from TEDx) were built to create a community focused on learning and inspiring everyone with new ideas on how to get better at whatever they do. The series seeks to educate not just founders and CEOs, but team members in key functions and provide them with tools, resources, and templates that they can use right away.

The idea dates to the end of 2017, when I joined VictorOps for one of their team dinners at AWS re:Invent. I chatted with co founder and COO, Bryce Ambraziunas, and when I asked him what else we can be doing to help, he mentioned that he knows that we provide our portfolio CEOs with valuable workshops and many resources, but suggested that we should really be doing so for the team members with boots on the ground. After all, these are the people who are executing and most of the time have limited resources.

I brought this feedback back and Martina and I created a series of functional workshops for early stage CEOs and their teams (which can often be teams of one). Over the course of the past two years, we solicited feedback to help us better customize the content and format of each Lab so that attendees always walked away with actionable processes and templates and the opportunity to develop their own "team" and network of peers to do more ongoing idea sharing.