Announcing The Leverage Live NYC

Free booze! Free books! Free cured meats!

For the last six months, I’ve been trying to answer the most important question in tech: what is an AI native company? These mythological firms are growing to $100M in ARR 6 months after starting—their smoke too tuff, their swag too different. The Leverage has conclusively proven that this phenomenon is real, but what’s been hard to understand is how a company actually becomes an AI native. These things are not created ex nihilo. They are born from a set of choices about culture, technology, and product.

So the natural followup is what are those choices. I’m putting together a room of 50 founders and senior tech operators to figure that out for The Leverage’s first-ever live event. I’m calling the gathering “How to Automate Everything.” It is happening June 3rd in NYC.

To guide the discussion, I’ve put together a killer panel.

Both Andrew and Ben are heavy users of AI while also working on two of the most important yet boring topics on the planet: taxes and expense tracking. Andrew is the founder and CEO of Taxwire, building the “last global sales tax solution your finance team will ever need.” He’s raised $25M, including a recent Series A, and has 25 people on the team today. Ben is the Head of Internal AI at Ramp, where he’s AI-pilled over 1,000 employees and helped transform the company’s internal culture.

It’s one thing to use AI agents to spin up some sloppy code. It’s a wholly different thing to let them touch money. I’m excited to dig into how agents transform a company from startup to scale-up.

Following the panel and Q&A, there will be a happy hour with all the Diet Coke, booze, and charcuterie you could possibly desire on a Wednesday night. There will also be the first-ever merch for The Leverage. And if that isn’t enough, there will be a giveaway of a book I think anyone who cares about AI should be reading.

The cost? Zilch! Priority access goes to paid subscribers of The Leverage.

I can’t wait to meet you all. You can RSVP below.