🔬: Mountain Gate is a private dinner & speakers series for founders and creatives who are interested in personal and meaningful success. The events are bi-monthly and include a themed panel.

🧠: Our mission is to create a homelike environment that facilitates ego-less connection to ultimately support both personal & professional growth for modern leaders and pioneers. 

🔍: Mountain Gate has been active in Los Angeles for 4 years and has over 5,000 members. In 2019, Mountain Gate began its migration to New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.

🚀: Find us on Instagram @mountaingate

✨🌎🎁: To join as a member: add the brains of the operation!
Sophia Parsa, @soph | Founder & Partner 
Chloe Makhani, @chloemakhani | Partner 
Aleksa Mara, @aleksamara | Partner 

Past Speakers include: Wayne Chang (Founder, Crashlytics, Napster) , Gunnar Lovelace (Founder, Thrive Market), Michael and Daniel Broukhim (Founders, FabFitFun) , Jonathan Shokrian (Founder, MeUndies), Candace Nelson (Founder, Sprinkles), Nick Taranto (Founder, Plated), Ariel Kaye (Founder, Parachute Home), Dr. Kai-fu Lee (Former president of Google China, author of AI Superpowers), Rob Rhinehart (Founder, Soylent), AJ Scaramucci (EIR, Peter Diamandis) , Scott Painter (Founder TrueCar, Fair), Payal Kadakia (Founder, ClassPass), Marlon Nichols (Co-Founder, Cross Culture Ventures), Lidia Bonilla (Founder, Women of Sex Tech), Rob Ferber (Chief Engineer, Virgin Hyperloop One), Alex Wilcox (Co-Founder, JetSuite) , Kiko Dontchev (Senior Manager, Dragon Ground & Launch Operations of SpaceX), Nicolas Berggren (Founder, Berggruen Institute), David Friedberg (Founder & CEO, The Production Board), Loretta Whitesides (Founding Astronaut, Virgin Galactic) , Larry Leight (Founder, Oliver Peoples), Patrick Studener (VP at Bird), Kara Nortman (Managing Partner, Upfront VC), Gabe Zichermann (CEO, Failosophy), Arwen Elys Dayton (YA Science Fiction Author), Yvonne Chen (Director, Biomolecular Engineering synthetic  biology lab, UCLA), Courtney and Carter Reum (Founding Partners, M13  VC), Mike Jones & Peter Pham (Co-Founders, Science-inc), Ari Friedland (angel investor, Uber, Dropbox), Bobby Turner (Turner Impact Capital) , Dan Kessler (VP of Business Development & Partnerships, Headspace), Yunah Lee (CFO of GOAT Sneakers), Jesse Draper (Managing Partner Halogen VC & Tim Draper)  , Brock Pierce (The Hippie-King of Crypto-Currency)
Rule #1: Please be respectful of other speakers.  🗣
Rule #2: Announce yourself, and make sure you place yourself on MUTE when you are invited to the stage. If you are disruptive to the conversation you will be moved back to the audience. 👩‍👩‍👧‍👧👩‍👧‍👧👨‍👧‍👧👩‍👩‍👦👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👨‍👦‍👦👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👧‍👧