Knowledge passed forward
Some lessons become clear only after years of leadership. Tycoon brings that lived knowledge into conversation with people still on their way, so one generation’s experience can help shape the next generation’s judgment.
Tycoon 2027 · San Francisco
Meet before
the titles.
Tycoon brings exceptional early builders and leaders together while relationships can still begin with curiosity rather than status: one small class, eight experiences over twelve months.
SF San Francisco
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Vision
In twenty years, the rooms that matter will be full of people who met at a Tycoon table.
Ambition
We are building the network of people who will lead the next generation of companies and institutions shaping the world. We want them to be as thoughtful about the lives their decisions touch as they are ambitious about what they build.
How it begins
The first gathering is only the beginning. Relationships deepen through time spent together.
The thesis
The best time to build a consequential relationship is before either person knows how consequential it will become.
Read the thesis ↗The problem
Ambition arrives before access does.
Future founders, executives, artists, scientists, policymakers, and institution builders are already doing work that is beginning to shape what comes next.
But the rooms that change trajectories often open only after the title, funding, or recognition arrives. Those relationships could have mattered most while they were still becoming.
Why Tycoon exists
Meet early. Grow together.
We are drawn to people operating slightly ahead of the permission they have been given: trusted with more than their title suggests, building before consensus forms, and making rooms stronger without needing the credit.
We select a small class with unusual trajectory, substance, agency, and character, then bring them together through eight shared experiences. Time together turns introductions into familiarity, trust, and relationships that can continue for decades. Our standard is published on the Selection page.
The model
Twenty people. A year to know each other.
Tycoon is built on three mutually reinforcing elements.
An exceptional peer class
People selected for trajectory, agency, substance, contribution, and character. Accomplished guests bring hard-earned perspective. The class brings the continuity: people who keep learning from one another as their lives and work grow.
Repeated shared experience
Enough time together for recognition to become familiarity, familiarity to become trust, and trust to become shared history.
The experience
Eight experiences. Twelve months. One class.
The Tycoon Experience begins with a twelve-month class year built around eight intimate, in-person experiences in San Francisco. Four bring members into close conversation with accomplished leaders. Four are centered on the class itself, turning impressive strangers into people who know, trust, and show up for one another.
Explore the Tycoon Year ↗Selection
A room that recognizes trajectory before consensus.
Tycoon does not select the most accomplished people. It selects people whose evidence is exceptionally strong relative to their stage and opportunity, and whose trajectory suggests they may go on to shape companies, industries, institutions, and communities.
Would this person still be in the room in fifteen years, and would everyone else be glad they were?How selection works ↗
Stay close
Some of the most important people in your life may still be becoming.
The Tycoon 2027 interest list is open. Join for updates and to hear when invitation requests open in January 2027.
Tycoon 2027 founding dues$5,000
Dues include all eight core experiences and lasting membership. Joining the interest list carries no financial commitment.
Know someone Tycoon should see early?
Nominations open with invitation requests in January 2027. Tell us what you have seen in them that a résumé alone would miss.