Magic in collaboration

For five years, I felt frustrated.

With multiple startup attempts and failures… 

I had ambition. I had ideas, I was willing to work hard. But nothing was really happening.

Because without the right collaborators, my ideas stayed on the page.

Then, in October 2022, I met Mikul and a couple of early collaborators. Within three months, we had a business concept.

Within six months, we launched our first KINN location.

As we say in Venice, this was a perfect synchronicity.

The thing that most people miss, though, is that synchronicity doesn’t just randomly happen.

It happens when you’re already out there in the world, meeting people, connecting. 

It manifests because you’ve placed yourself in an ecosystem of conversations and people who are also building, experimenting, and learning.

When you work with others, when you show up in the right rooms, the odds of a breakthrough multiply.

Every conversation holds the possibility of a new idea. Every introduction could spark the missing piece. Serendipity shows up for the people who are already in motion, together.

It’s why no great startup is ever built alone. Doing it by yourself takes ten times as long.

And history shows us that greatness is produced from collaboration.

– There are many Brazilian soccer stars (Pelé, Ronaldinho, Neymar) because of its extensive network of urban favelas and their highly competitive culture of street soccer.

– George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and a group of their contemporaries redefined Hollywood because they had a support system with each other – sharing ideas, influencing each other’s work, and ultimately creating the modern blockbuster.

– Jobs and Gates were part of a social network too: a cluster of peers in Silicon Valley who fed off each other’s ideas, rivalries, and breakthroughs.

The modern world has disconnected us, and it keeps trying to convince us we can hustle alone and still make it.

But the common thread is always the same:

We grow faster in the right place, with the right people, in the right pack.

Scott Galloway says the best way to get ahead is to move to a big city. And he’s right, cities concentrate talent.

But even here in Los Angeles, one of the best cities in the world, we hit a problem: the talent is here, but it’s disconnected and fragmented.

This is why so many founders are feeling stuck. 

Real progress, growth, and momentum happen when you’re in proximity with the right people. When you’re exposed to fresh perspectives and actively collaborating.

You can’t replicate that in isolation.

We learned this ourselves. Before we launched the first KINN location, we created an accelerator program to fast-track founders’ businesses. It guided them from entrepreneurs to leaders of high-impact ventures in a short span of time.

This was initially online. But after our second accelerator cohort, the feedback was clear: we needed to meet in person.

As much value as there is in the content, the real magic is face to face.

The unplanned connections.

Repetition of interactions.

Side conversations.

And the energy of being in the room.

So this time, we’re hosting a new startup program in our physical space, at the KINN, in Venice. 

This is a highly tailored 8-week program limited to 10 top LA-based founders.

It’s called the Founder Sprint Studio.

We’re bringing founders, industry experts, and guest speakers together into a mature, tested, and true ecosystem to expedite your business, your network, and your professional growth.

This is for impact-driven founders who are serious, and ready to take the next step in their professional careers.

We never know exactly when synchronicity will manifest.

But we do know that we grow faster together. 

And it’s when you choose not to do it alone – when you show up, meet new people, and collaborate, that magic happens.

→ Apply for the Founder Sprint Studio

I hope to see you there.

Oliver.