This year, Main Street Summit starts on the green. ⛳
Main Street Open '26 — an 18-hole scramble at Columbia Country Club with fellow attendees + MSS speakers.
Tues, Sept 15
🏌️ 7:00a range | 7:30a breakfast | 8:00a shotgun start
Mini-games, prizes, and zero pressure. Bring your A game or just show up.
Included for All-In + Capital Camp passholders, $200 add-on with any other pass. Spots are limited — sign up today.
https://t.co/U0QLvcSB4F
Some of the sharpest, most independent investors we know will be at Capital Camp this year:
• @verdadcap — Founder of Verdad Advisers
• @_ram_ — Founder & CIO of @OctahedronCap
• @km — Managing Partner at @KindredVentures
Three very different lenses on where real opportunity hides.
Request an invite → https://t.co/hkTnpv6QyG
Most of us are living downstream of an invitation we didn't pay for.
Mine came on a frisbee golf course in Colorado, from a young life leader who asked me one question I've never forgotten.
Who was the invitation in your life?
4 days until prices go up.
60+ speakers at Main Street Summit 2026 — @PeterMallouk, Jim McKelvey (@2000F ), @shaneparrish, Anu Hariharan, Cris Burnam + 50 more.
Classic $1,000 → $1,250
All-In $5,000 → $5,500
Through May 1.
Register: https://t.co/Dc6BUyziuv
New essay on @BenSasse and the question I can't stop asking myself.
How can a dying man without the ability to grow skin on his face radiate a joy, levity, and peace that the rest of us are starving for?
There's a real market for @Tesla, and eventually humanoids, in the 80+ crowd.
How many stories have you heard about a grandparent who won't drive more than 10 miles? That's a tiny life.
And don't tell me it's the tech. My nana sends me reels on Instagram DMs.
The friction is trust and setup, not the interface.
A story I’ll never forget:
Years ago, while working @TheCrossingCoMo, a student with special needs arrived at my office in the middle of the school day, clearly overwhelmed. I asked what brought him there, and he told me he had left school because he was having a really hard day.
He wanted to go somewhere that felt safe, so he came to the church. To my office.
The school was 3 miles away.
Two more speakers are locked in for September. Both have built businesses that most people haven’t heard of. Both have numbers worth knowing.
Cris Burnam (@StorageMart): 298 stores, 3 countries, $9B+ in deals. HQ’d in Columbia, MO. Went public, got acquired for $650M, started over, built it back, closed a $3.2B deal.
Tim Paulson (@ESS_emerysapp): $1B+ Midwest construction. 100% employee-owned. ESOP allocations hitting $133K for an equipment operator. Built in Columbia.
Seeing a lot of clips of China’s AI robot army lately. Honest question: if they’re AI-powered, why outfit them with rifles that have scopes and iron sights?