Run your city's chapter of United Founders
A US$300k-a-year business, built on around 15 hours a week - for exited founders who want to sit at the centre of their city's founder community without starting from zero.
You've built and exited. You don't want another startup. You want the best parts of the founder life - the people, the conversations, the room - without the grind.
A chapter in every founder city
United Founders started in Bali: 500+ founders and leaders, 60+ events a year, and a community that's become the front door to the island's founder scene. The next step is chapters across the world, each run by a local chapter head - so that a member landing in Lisbon, Mexico City or Cape Town can drop in and be amongst founders within a day, for dinner, for advice, or for their next deal.
Chapter heads are how that happens. Not employees, not franchise managers - experienced founders who own and run their city's chapter as their own business, on our brand, our platform and our playbook.
Bali is 500 members strong. Your city could be next.
Built for founders who've
been through it
The role suits past founders - most likely exited - who've lived the full journey: the early chaos, the scaling, the hard decisions, the sale. That experience is the product. Members can tell within one conversation whether the person running the room has actually done it.
Beyond the CV, it's a temperament: you genuinely enjoy talking candidly with founders and leaders - the real conversations, without the fluff - and you're still curious enough to keep learning from every one of them. If hosting a dinner of eight sharp operators sounds like a good Tuesday rather than a work obligation, you're the profile.
You're looking for a passive investment.
You've never operated a business of your own.
You see community as a lead-generation channel for something else you sell.
The machine is built. You bring the judgement.
We've spent years building what most community businesses die trying to build - so a new chapter doesn't start from zero, it starts from here:
The brand
A name and reputation earned over years and hundreds of events, with a founding chapter of 500+ members as living proof the model works.
The operating system
The full playbook and platform: membership systems, event formats, onboarding flows, pricing, application and vetting processes, content and templates - the accumulated answers to every "how do we..." a chapter will hit.
The team of assistants
Admin, operations and member support are handled by our existing team. The heavy lifting of the day-to-day - billing, scheduling, follow-ups, platform management - is already done for you.
Around three hours a day, spent where it counts
With operations handled, your 15 hours a week go on the things only a founder can do: choosing the right members, hosting and shaping events, and the steady community work that keeps the culture right. You're the taste, the standards and the face of the chapter - the reason the room feels different from every other networking event in your city.
Vetting applications and keeping the bar high. The community is only ever as good as its weakest yes.
Hosting and shaping the calendar: dinners, industry nights, meetups. You set the tone in the room.
The messages, introductions and small interventions that make members feel looked after.
Protecting the spirit of the thing: candid, generous, no selling to the room.
The economics, and everything around them
The business
We've designed the model so a mature chapter is a US$300k-a-year business for its chapter head, secured by a licensing agreement over a set number of years, renewable provided the chapter meets its standards. Your city, your P&L, our system underneath.
The seat
Chapter heads sit at the centre of their city's founder community - the person everyone knows, the first call when a founder lands in town, a trusted name in the entrepreneur community. Prestige isn't the product, but it comes with the job.
The work itself
You spend your week in candid conversation with capable people, helping founders and leaders grow - and watching the community compound because of decisions you made. Of everything on this page, this is the part chapter heads will end up valuing most.
From waitlist to launch
Applications aren't open yet. The waitlist is where they'll open first.
Join the WaitlistJoin the waitlist
Tell us who you are and which city or country you'd want to run.
Conversations
When your city comes into scope, we'll talk: your background, your read on the local founder scene, whether we're a fit both ways.
Licence and training
Agreement signed, then immersion in the playbook - systems, formats, standards - with time inside the founding Bali chapter.
Launch your chapter
Open with our support on the ground and the operations team behind you from day one.
Not open yet - but the waitlist is
We're opening chapters deliberately, city by city, and chapter heads will be chosen from the waitlist first. If there's a city or country you'd want to run, put your name down and tell us where.
You're on the list
We'll be in touch when your city comes into scope. No newsletters, no drip campaigns - you'll hear from us when there's something real to discuss.
Asked and answered
We hold the commercial details - licence fee and revenue terms - for the conversation stage, deliberately. It's a two-way fit question, and the numbers only make sense alongside the full model. What we'll say here: it's structured as your business, not a job, and the economics are designed so a mature chapter is a US$300k-a-year business for its head.
Chapter revenue: memberships, events and partnerships, run on our pricing and playbook. We walk through the full model - including the ramp from launch to maturity - during the conversation stage.
An exit is the most common profile, but the real requirement is having operated through the full founder journey - and the time and appetite to be present in the community.
The waitlist itself will shape the order. Where we see a strong candidate and a strong founder scene in the same city, that city moves up the list.
Case by case. The licence needs one accountable owner, but we're open to partnerships where the fit is right - raise it in the conversation stage.
The licence runs for a set term with renewal conditions - we'll walk through exactly what those are during the application process.
Join the waitlist anyway and say so - timing matters more than status.