Everything is getting faster, more mediated, more automated. The tools are extraordinary. The relationships are getting thinner.
Analog Moat is a dinner series built around the premise that human connection — real, face-to-face, unhurried — is one of the few things that compounds in the age of AI. We're building the table worth clearing your calendar for.
Operators at growth-stage companies. Investors who've done the work. People whose presence makes others sharper. Attendance is by invitation or referral — not application.
Kenneth Lo. Operator and investor. He's built and scaled companies in industries where the margins are thin and the work is unglamorous — which is most of the economy.
The gatherings are curated personally. The list of who gets in is a judgment call, not an algorithm.
Dinner. Eight to twelve people. One theme. No slides, no agenda, no one performing for a room they can't read.
The constraint is the point. Small enough that everyone is heard. Intimate enough that people say what they actually think.