Senior leaders and guests
Bring the wisdom, judgment, and candor that can change how an exceptional emerging leader sees what is possible.
Participate
Help build the room before the world knows its names.
Every enduring institution begins with a small group of people who see its possibility early. Tycoon I will be shaped by remarkable leaders who share what they know, founding partners who make an exceptional first year possible, and trusted connectors who help us discover people the world should know sooner.
An invitation to build with us
There is more than one way to shape the beginning.
The people who lend their judgment, support, attention, and reach to Tycoon I will help define what this institution can become. Find the role that feels most meaningful to you.
Founding partners and underwriters
Help bring an ambitious new institution to life and be recognized among the organizations that believed early.
Press and media
Tell the story of an institution attempting to recognize consequential people before the rest of the world does.
Community connectors
Introduce Tycoon to remarkable people and communities whose potential deserves to be seen earlier.
Your experience could change the trajectory of a room.
We invite a small number of accomplished leaders to join Tycoon I for an Entre Nous evening: an intimate, beautifully hosted conversation with roughly twenty exceptional people at the beginning of consequential careers. This is a chance to share the version of leadership that rarely fits on a stage, and to meet the people who may be shaping industries and institutions for decades to come.
Why we would be honored to host you
- Your judgment can make difficult choices feel more navigable to people encountering them for the first time.
- Your candor about the false starts, private tradeoffs, reversals, and convictions behind the polished story can stay with a member for years.
- You will meet an exceptional emerging class before conventional status has sorted the room. Knowing these people now is easier than knowing them once everyone wants to.
- The conversation is designed for genuine exchange with members selected partly because they know something deeply and ask unusually thoughtful questions.
- Over time, the leaders who pass through Tycoon can become a distinguished circle of their own.
A thoughtful, contained invitation
- One brief preparation conversation helps us build the evening around the ideas and experiences you most want to explore.
- One hosted appearance, shaped around your schedule and the boundaries that make candor comfortable.
- No assigned mentee, ongoing advisory role, or expectation that you continue the relationship afterward.
- Your participation and name are shared only in ways you have approved, and your private contact details remain private.
- For invited travel outside the Bay Area, reasonable travel and lodging arrangements will be agreed with you in advance.
Come as a guest, not a performance.
We want the evening to feel generous, intellectually alive, and genuinely enjoyable for you. Your presence is an extraordinary contribution; it is never treated as a blanket endorsement or an open-ended obligation.
Become one of the organizations that believed early.
Tycoon I is an opportunity to help establish an institution at the moment its culture, standard, and legacy are first being formed. Founding support allows us to create an extraordinary year, extend access to people who should be in the room, and build with the care that a decades-long vision deserves.
Ways we can build together
- Founding institutional partnership. Help bring the Tycoon Year to life and be recognized among the organizations that made the beginning possible.
- Signature experience partnership. Create a memorable evening through exceptional venue, hospitality, and production support.
- Access partnership. Help ensure that personal finances do not keep an extraordinary selected member outside the room.
- In-kind partnership. Contribute distinctive venues, hospitality, travel, photography, print, or production capabilities.
- Institution-building support. Strengthen the research, documentation, and infrastructure that allow Tycoon to learn and grow deliberately.
What partnership can create
- A meaningful founding association with an ambitious institution and the year that established it.
- Thoughtful recognition aligned to the partnership and the contribution it made possible.
- A closer connection to a wider ecosystem of senior leaders, fellow partners, and emerging builders.
- Aggregate insight into the questions, ambitions, and themes animating the class, always shared with care for individual privacy.
- A credible way to demonstrate long-horizon investment in exceptional people before that investment becomes obvious.
Why the independence matters
Tycoon’s selection standard and confidential rooms are what make the institution worth supporting. We protect those qualities so that a partner’s association means something. Partnership benefits, recognition, and opportunities to engage will be designed together and written down clearly, while member selection and private information remain independent.
Who we hope to meet
Organizations that value leadership, entrepreneurship, enduring relationships, and the ability to see potential early. We are especially excited by partners who want to help shape something distinctive from its first year, not simply place a logo beside it.
A founding relationship, designed with intention.
There is no generic package we want to press into your hands. We would rather understand what your organization cares about, show you where it intersects meaningfully with Tycoon, and design a partnership both sides will be proud to have begun.
Tell the story of recognizing people before consensus.
Tycoon begins with a question worth examining: what changes when exceptional people meet before the titles, capital, and public recognition arrive? We welcome thoughtful writers and journalists who want to explore the thesis, the design of the institution, and the honest work of trying to earn a reputation rather than declaring one.
Standing description
Tycoon is a curated network that brings exceptional early builders and leaders together before status makes relationships transactional. Members are selected for trajectory, agency, contribution, character, and substance. Tycoon I is a twelve-month class experience in San Francisco built around eight intimate in-person experiences, followed by lasting membership in the institution.
Quick facts
- Founded in San Francisco in 2026 by Tracy Agyemang.
- First class: Tycoon I, approximately twenty members.
- Structure: twelve months, eight core experiences, continuing membership.
How we can be useful
- A candid founder conversation about the thesis, product model, standards, and long-term vision.
- Clear distinctions between what is planned, confirmed, operating, and still being tested.
- Background on selection, partnership design, the Tycoon Year, and how we intend to measure whether the relationships are working.
- Confirmed facts, approved materials, and thoughtful access appropriate to the stage Tycoon has actually reached.
We will help you tell the story without compromising the room.
The experiences depend on privacy and candor, so candidate materials, private member information, and confidential conversations remain protected. We will work with serious reporters to find useful ways to examine Tycoon while honoring the trust of the people building it with us.
Help us recognize extraordinary people earlier.
Universities, professional communities, fellowship programs, operators, and trusted individuals often see exceptional talent long before the wider market does. Your perspective can help Tycoon discover people we would be unlikely to find on our own.
Who comes to mind?
Someone operating ahead of the permission they have been given. Someone who has caused meaningful things to happen, developed uncommon depth, and made other ambitious people better. Tell us what you have seen in them that a résumé alone would miss.
What your nomination means
A nomination ensures that someone remarkable enters our field of view and tells us where to look more closely. Every person is considered against the same published standard, preserving the meaning of both your recommendation and a Tycoon invitation.
Your trust matters to us.
If we contact someone you nominate, we will tell them that you brought them to our attention and handle the introduction with care.
Begin
We would be delighted to hear from you.
Tell us what brought you to Tycoon and how you imagine being part of its beginning. Whether you have a specific idea or simply want to explore what might be possible, this is the place to start.