Jared Kleinert

We're excited to announce @offsite has raised $3M to make team retreat planning easier and more cost-effective for remote/hybrid teams around the world. Below, you can learn about the stellar VCs and angels who've participated, plus learn about our offsite planning platform.

@polyaivoice PolyAI

PolyAI has raised $200M from Nvidia, Khosla Ventures, and multiple top VCs. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK, and we handle 500M+ calls for: • Marriott • PG&E • Gordon Ramsay's restaurants • And 3,000 more real deployments Which means that if you've ever called them, chances are you've talked to our voice agents. Every restaurant we onboard books thousands in revenue within 30 days. But how? Because PolyAI works 24/7, answering every call in <2 seconds, and we also: • switch between 45+ languages • handle payments & cancellations • verify identities • and even upsell your services If you want to try creating an agent with PolyAI, we built Agent Studio Lite to make it easy. Just enter any URL, and in 5 minutes it will analyze your website and build a working agent. We're opening early access to a limited number of people. Comment "PolyAI" and we'll add you to the waitlist and give you 3 months for free!

@freddiexpott Steal

LINKEDIN DOESN'T WANT YOU KNOWING THIS but you can legally scrape your competitor's entire audience client showed me his setup: METHOD 1: viral post scraping - finds competitor post (2,400 comments) - scrapes all commenters - filters VP+ at $20M+ companies (680 qualified) - personalized dms to all 680 - result: 27% reply rate, 17 calls METHOD 2: follower scraping - competitor has 18,400 followers - scrapes entire list - filters decision makers - 840 qualified prospects in 15 minutes METHOD 3: engagement tracking - tracks who likes competitor content - highest intent leads (already interested) - reply rate: 27% vs 11% cold the economics: TIME: 15 minutes setup COST: $79/month RESULTS: 680 leads → 17 calls → $67k revenue most people search for leads smart people steal them comment "STEAL" to get the document on how it's built following required to send it to you

@martymadrid @drinkhighwest Almost big enough to hire @offsite - when you’re approaching 10 ppl, let’s talk 🤝🧳💪

The team that drams together, jams together — we took a critical detour to @drinkhighwest for this quarter’s offsite

Great day in Salt Lake City with our favorite lead investor ... we flew the entire team for a little 2026 world-domination planning and to celebrate our 2-year Formation'versary!

@martymadrid We love a good domain!

The most hype timing thing ever is crypto.com pivoting to ai.com

@oliverbrocato Similar here! Part of the game.

Been drowning in boring shit lately: > Onboarding contracts + employee agreements + payroll setup > New bookkeeping service > LLC → C Corp conversion + cap table fixes > Sorting my CTO's visa so he can move from Toronto → NYC > Restructuring incentives + modeling finances Not sexy. Not exciting. But this is the grind.

@anothercohen How do you fight back?

One thing no one warns you about is how often your competitors will lie about you to your customers and during RFPs to try and win a deal. Seeing a lot of shady behavior recently

@henrythe9ths Damn, you had quite a year! 👏

At the peak of my career, I walked away from the $200M rev/year company I founded. 2025 forced me to rethink everything I believed about success, AI, and ambition. I started the year “semi-retired”: – investing – advising – writing checks – posting online On paper, I’d won. In reality, something was missing. Initially, I was learning AI in public, which unexpected turned into the AI Crash Course (5k+ GitHub stars). That momentum led to the Lean AI Leaderboard, tracking tiny teams hitting $5M+ ARR. Through the leaderboard, I popularized Seedstrapping: an alternative funding model for AI-Native founders to scale quickly and keep control. Then I dogfooded my own advice. As a solopreneur, I tested 2 ideas and quickly crossed "$100K"+ ARR without raising capital or hiring a team. On the investing side: – Met 500+ founders – Spoke with 100+ GPs – Angel invested in 30 companies – became a LP in multiple tier-1 funds 2 earlier seed bets became unicorns this year. Meanwhile, Super[.]com crossed $200M+ rev/year. I couldn’t be prouder of my co-founder Hussein and the entire team. But the biggest decision came in July. Instead of starting another company or becoming a VC, I joined Anthropic as a Technical Chief of Staff working directly with co-founder Ben Mann (one of the first authors on the GPT-3 paper). I wanted to contribute towards a positive mission, on what will be the most important technological shift of our lifetimes. Since starting, I’ve helped explore 0-1 emerging model capabilities across research & product that I can’t talk about publicly yet 🙂 What I can share is something a colleague (Boris) said publicly: “In the last 30 days, 100% of my contributions…were written by Claude Code.” This is just the beginning. I believe we may see economic AGI by 2027-28... Outside of AI, I continued to give back. – Donated $1M+ to non profit – Gave away 8 detailed guides to 1M+ people – Spoke on 20+ talks, podcasts and conferences – Hosted 10+ dinners with unicorn repeat founders, tier-1 VCs, and AI researchers And the most important milestone of the year: I proposed to the love of my life ❤️ My takeaway from 2025: The world is changing faster than ever. AI will reshape our work, our identities, and our institutions. But don’t let the chaos distract you from what matters most: your family, passions, and purpose. Build the future. Live in the present. Happy New Year.

@ColinGardiner @clementc @offsite Clement…let’s chat! I run offsite.com and we manage retreats for hundreds of companies like Perplexity, Remote, HubSpot, Mercor, Walmart, Hootsuite, and countless more. Feel free to dm or Jared at offsite.com is my email.

@clementc @offsite and @jaredkleinert

Looking for a travel agent to price / organize a large team offsite. Any suggestions?

@StevenSimoni @allencontrol So where’s the @offsite gonna be? :)

reminder: we are hiring at @allencontrol for BD in Europe, across INDOPACOM, plus other roles in mechanical engineering, computer vision, and more

@dhh I agree! Started offsite.com bc I was inspired by teams like yours, Automattic, GitLab, Zapier, and others. Now we’ve helped 400+ companies and counting plan team retreats globally like Perplexity, Remote, HubSpot, Walmart, Webflow and others. 🧡

You're never getting me back into an office full time, but I'd also hate to work remotely without these fantastic semiannual meetups. Spending a week together in person is invaluable for charging trust batteries and connecting as humans. Highly recommend it for any remote team.

@jasonfried 62 people is perfect for an offsite (the average retreat we plan at offsite.com for clients is about 75 ppl). Love that you guys gather irl regularly and appreciated the shared agenda you guys posted online. Way to lead by example on all things remote/hybrid work!

Lots of questions about how how many people we have at 37signals. We currently have 62 people. We were around 80 at our employee-count peak a few years ago. We got smaller by not replacing people or specific roles when people left.

@aymanalabdul Can’t wait! Getting close 😅

When you realize that $3M-$30M is easier than $0M-$3M

@henrythe9ths Fundraise

I got rejected by 144 investors before raising $150M for my $200M+ rev/year startup. After 144 rejections, I started questioning our approach. Were we solving the right problem? What were we doing wrong? Why weren’t investors seeing what we were seeing? Were we the right team to build this? We tried everything: different pitch angles, new deck structures, and reframing the problem. Then came the 145th meeting, where we closed our first growth round. That yes made everything worth it. But getting there took years of mistakes and hard work. We went through a lot of trial and error just to figure out what resonates with investors. We tried dozens of approaches to figure out what made investors engage. Some landed, most didn't. But each iteration taught us something about what builds conviction versus what just sounds good on paper. And once we cracked that code, our Series C closed faster than expected. And today, I see so many founders in the exact same position I was in 10 years ago: grinding through rejections, questioning everything, and trying to figure out what works. So today I want to give you the resource I wish I had back then: Something that shows you exactly how to structure these conversations and navigate the entire process (because the fundraising cycle can be a big distraction and take a toll on you as a founder). So I've partnered with Notion's Startups Team to create the essential fundraising resource that helps you avoid the mistakes that cost me years. Here's what you are getting: • The actual decks I used to raise $150M for Super[.]com (Series B, C) • 50 real examples from funded startups like Eleven Labs and Artisan AI • A searchable database of 10,000+ investors - angels, VCs, and accelerators you can reach out to immediately (this alone would take months to build manually) • An AI-powered fundraising agent built into Notion with step-by-step prompts (no separate ChatGPT needed) Want access? • Like and share this post • Comment "FUNDRAISE" • Follow me so I can DM you the link I'll send it over ASAP. P.S.: If you are serious about fundraising (now or in the future), you should grab it right away.

@PLBompard Offsite.com = High ROI team retreats…

Pitch your startup - Max 4 words - Share link if you have one 👀 Seen by 160k people last month 📈 YES, this is marketing - GO!

@martymadrid Do you just feed it beans and it makes coffee?

@jaredkleinert CO2 on the inside and we use it to make cold brew! Bought it from a vendor in Canada … add in an extra $500 for shipping (it’s > 200lbs)

The quote was $10K to rent a coffee cart for three days … it cost us $2,800 to buy one. 🤷‍♂️

@anothercohen Let me know when you wanna plan the celebratory @offsite 😉🫡

Excited to share that we've raised a $22.5m Series A for Hello Patient, led by Scale Venture Partners. This is by far the worst announcement video I've ever made. I can't believe our lead investor agreed to this

File this under: things HR won’t put in the handbook. 🌊🍹 #OffsiteLife

This week, we got to see our Times Square billboard light up one of the most iconic spots in the world! It’s a huge milestone for our team, and one we couldn’t have reached without our incredible clients, partners, and the Offsite who make big ideas happen every day. From the start, our mission has been simple: help teams connect, collaborate, and create memories that last long after the offsite ends. To everyone who’s believed in us and trusted us to help bring their teams together, thank you. This moment is yours as much as it is ours! And special shout-out to @brexHQ for showcasing us!

Who says a company offsite can’t double as the most epic album release party for The Life Of A Showgirl 👀 Book now at offsite.com