The LA Grind Club

Where the LA startup community meets every week.

Weekly curated events with founders, operators, investors, and ambitious people across LA

7,000+ newsletter readers | ~50 founding members | 30+ events in the last 6 months

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Where LA’s startup community builds real relationships.

The LA Grind Club helps you build meaningful relationships with the people who can actually move your business forward - Founders, operators, investors, and trusted service providers.Through weekly gatherings and small group events, you get consistent opportunities to meet people you want to stay connected with. People who can help you grow, collaborate, hire, partner, and level up what you are building.If you want stronger relationships in LA’s startup community, this is your place.

Weekly access to curated events across LA

Members get access to events every week, with at least two member-only events a month.What you can expect:
- Coffee meetups
- Happy hours
- Co-working
- Walks
- HikesSpecial experiences include: Retreats, race nights, big holiday events, poker nights, basketball runs, dinners, and more.Some special events have an added fee. Members always get priority access.You also get access to our private WhatsApp group where members share opportunities, ask for help, and stay connected between events.

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How it works

Who this is for

This is for ambitious people who want deeper relationships in LA’s startup community.- Founders, operators, investors, and service pros in LA’s startup community
- People who are kind, curious, and ambitious
- People who want to build meaningful relationships
- People who value consistency and showing up
- Anyone serious about creating something in LA

Who this is NOT for

- People who treat events as a place to pitch
- People who spam, sell, or self-promote aggressively
- People who no-show or cancel repeatedly
- People who ignore community standards

About our members

We already have ~50 members across LA - founders, operators, investors, and service pros who are building real companies and doing meaningful work.You will meet people like:
- A venture-backed founder who just raised a multi-million dollar seed round
- A bootstrapped founder doing hundreds of thousands in revenue and another doing millions
- An investor who has made 100+ investments into athletes, creators, and entrepreneurs
- Operators and executives with experience at public companies and high-growth startups
- A founder currently raising capital for an AI companyWe have a tight, ambitious group of people who show up, help each other, and build real relationships.

A note from Justin

I started The LA Grind Club because I know how powerful it is to be surrounded by ambitious people.I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee with almost no access to that kind of energy. Things changed when I moved to LA for my MBA at USC and finally met founders, operators, and investors who pushed me to think bigger and take more risks.Working solo later on, I realized how hard it is to consistently find people like that in LA.Paul Graham once wrote:“Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, the ambitious ones will not have many ambitious peers. When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water.”The LA Grind Club exists to create that environment. A place where ambitious people can meet consistently, build real relationships, and feel supported in what they are trying to build.Justin
Founder of The LA Grind

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Membership costs $59/month or $590/year.
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