What started as a 30-day challenge turned into 1,913 founders, 12 games, 3 cities — and the start of a global movement.
Welcome to our 1’913 new big-brain tech friends who joined us! 🧠👋🏼
For context, we’ve spent the last 3 weeks running the “Founders Olympics”. 12 tech gaming events across 3 cities. Poker, Chess, Catan, and Paintball. In SF, NYC, & London.
This ended up being a HUGE SUCCESS - more than 1000+ tech founders, investors, operators signed up to the global games! 🤯🤯
All events were very curated (we only had capacity to let in ~10% of attendees), yet OVERSUBSCRIBED - some were SO FULL we had to lock doors & close entries as it was becoming a safety hazard!
A lot of you who attended REALLY impressed me… I couldn’t believe it… 🤯 🤯 🤯 One of you told me they were co-founder with Sam Altman, another told me they personally invested in Zuckerberg’s Facebook during an early round 20 years ago, while other just impressed me with exceptional feats they’ve achieved in their life (e.g. ex-Olympic athlete turned founders, IPO-ed founders, etc).
Thanks to all for being so awesome and being so good fun! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank also to Canva, Google, AWS, Chapter One, Meow, and all our sponsors & partners for making it such a success! 💛💛
🏆 Who Are the 2025 Tech Games Champions?
1,913 founders joined us across SF, NYC & London.
9 came out on top.
They won at Poker, Catan, Chess, and Paintball — and brought serious game.
Thanks to everyone who played.
And congrats to the champions — you earned it. 👏
To the champions: you made history.
📢🔥 We’re Launching Something Big…
We’re determined to build the world’s biggest network of tech games.
Why?
After running 200+ tech events that brought 10’000+ tech folks together, we’ve realised 2 things:
Games attract the sharpest minds in tech - “whereas tech drinks optimise for alcoholics, tech games optimise for high IQ crowds.”
The best founders, operators, and investors think like gamers - the most exceptional people we’ve met — the ones building, scaling, and thinking at the highest level — all treat startups like a game.
Demis Hassabis? Chess GM + Regular WSOP player (6 digits earnings). Bill Gates? Competitive Bridge player. Steve Wozniak? Competitive Tetris player. Peter Thiel? Chess GM. Reid Hoffman? Huge Catan Player (even wrote a book about it), etc. Every legendary operator has games in their DNA.
So we’re going all in.
We believe tech games have the potential to be the most recharging, bonding, and accelerating format for ambitious tech minds — with absurdly high ROI.
That’s why we’re announcing….
The World’s Biggest Network of Tech Games. 👾
👉🏽 Read the Launch Post 🎉👏🏽
👉🏽 Enter TechGames.xyz ⭐️👾
We want it to become the place where a special breed of techno-innovators meet.
The ones who believe that startups is a game. The ones who believe that games speak the language of maths. The ones who are statistically literate and who are wired to play the game of startups like min-maxing gamers.
We want every interaction you have with TechGames & the events to supercharge you in multiple ways, i.e. we’re creating & tweaking every touch points to maximise you feeling..
🔥 Hyped & Energised
Your inner fire should be amplified by the people you just hung out with.
❤️ Appreciated & Loved
This is a space where you belong. We all know what it’s like to be on the edge — the emotional rollercoasters, sleepless nights, and sacrifices. We see you.
🚀 Accelerated as Hell
You’ll meet people who unlock new tools, shortcuts, insights, or opportunities — infinitely faster than you could on your own.
🔥 We Lit the First Fires. Now Let’s Light Up the World. 🌎
Techgames.xyz is the first piece of a much bolder vision. We want to build the highest ROI community for techno-innovators in the world, where startups are seen as a game & mathematics its language.
This is no longer an idea - it’s a movement.
If something in you sparks at the thought of playing with sharper minds, building with more force, and spreading this energy city by city — join your forces to ours! 🔥
👾 Show up & play.
⭐️ Enlighten your city & Host.
🧠 Share your thoughts & Help us improve.
We’re not looking for followers. We’re looking for players.