This dinner is part of an invite-only series of meals which bring together leading executives from a variety of backgrounds for a meaningful exchange of ideas, to learn and discuss, and build new relationships and strengthen existing ones. Tonight's dinner provides an opportunity to share ideas with your peers around developing your business strategy when your ultimate goal is an exit. All invitees run or have built businesses with more than $5M in revenue, some still growing, others who have recently exited.

Sometimes exploration is worth it. Sometimes you just spent a week of the team’s attention answering a question the founder could have tested in an afternoon. That is the part I think leaders underestimate. Ideas do not only cost money. They cost time, focus, and brainpower long before anyone approves a budget. The question I’d want answered is: how much of the organization does this idea deserve yet?