fnGlobal Keynote & Roundtables with Adam Sah (July 10, 2025)

What does it take to build products that scale and companies that last—again and again?

Join Adam Sah, a serial founder and early Google engineer, for an inside look at how he’s turned ideas into impact over a 30-year career spanning engineering, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Adam’s journey includes being on the ground floor at Google, where he wrote the first Chrome extensions and helped shape core products, and going on to launch and lead multiple startups, including three that went public. Along the way, he’s accumulated 25 U.S. patents and built teams that thrive under pressure.

In this session, Adam will share hard-won lessons on what truly drives product-market fit, how to navigate the founder journey through cycles and pivots, and why his long view of company-building has helped him consistently stay ahead of the curve. He’ll also speak candidly about mistakes, reinventions, and how to make success sustainable.

Whether you’re at your first startup or your fifth, this conversation will give you a rare lens into the mindset and mechanics of a founder who’s done it all—and is still building.

Opening Remarks @ 9:30am PT

Join us for opening remarks with Dina Wagner, Head of Member Success at Founders Network, to get the latest updates from the Network and opportunities for getting involved.

Keynote Speaker @ 9:40am PT

Adam Sah is a seasoned entrepreneur, operator, and investor with 9 exits, 3 IPOs, 25 patents and was an early senior technical lead at Google.

Currently, he is the Founder and Managing Director of Zero Capital, a pre-seed fund reflecting the zero-to-one focus and the aspiration to add value beyond capital. The firm operates with authenticity, transparency, and a focus on positive reputation, seeking inspiration and joy as deeper goals and signals of high function. Adam invests in a variety of technology sectors, and half of his recent investments involve AI. He earned his graduate degree from UC Berkeley and is currently based in New York City, where he's co-chair of the NYC chapter of the Google Alumni. Adam is also longtime faculty at Alchemist Accelerator, the leading program for B2B startups.

Stage-Based Roundtables @ 10:30am PT

Community Partners:

Jeff Erickson

Jeff leads the Partnerships Team at Forecastr — a leading FP&A software company that helps startups create kick-butt financial models to impress investors, confidently raise capital, and effectively run their businesses better.

Jeff serves on the advisory boards of several startup companies and is an active angel investor. He's passionate about startups and enjoys working with founders and mentoring entrepreneurs.

Jeff is an experienced entrepreneur and was the founder and CEO of a successful consumer goods company that he rapidly grew from $1M in sales its first year to over $40M in annual revenue in its fourth year of operations and was ranked #138 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies.

Prior to founding his own company, Jeff was a partner at Beanstalk Partners where he led the sales and business development activities. He also served as the National Sales Director for a venture-backed tech startup where he generated over $45M in client contracts and developed the company’s channel partner program.

Jeff has a degree in accounting and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah. After receiving his MBA in Finance from the University of Utah he served as the Vice President of Investments for Sentry Financial Corporation.

Blake Caldwell

Blake Caldwell is the CEO & Founder of FoundersBoost. He has 350 alumni, 100 new startups a year, 8k newsletter readers. He's driven by his passions to create and build community. He's also the founder of 2332 Collective (music production & festivals with the goal of bringing music to West LA) & The MoGuard (consumer product cup attachment protecting glorious mustaches).

FoundersBoost is a free pre-seed & seed stage mentorship driven pre-accelerator helping promising tech-startups with accelerators, investment, and revenue.

Guests Are Welcome!

Please bring a guest! Every member can bring one (1) guest to each event. Each guest must be a full-time tech startup founder so they can bring new perspectives, skillsets, and experience to your chapter.

All guests must be full-time tech startup founders and you can register them directly on this function page. See How to Register a Guest here.

Confidentiality Policy:

All information shared within Founders Network is strictly confidential. We are built on a foundation of trust, and the community takes confidentiality seriously. Investors, members, and staff all share experiences and opinions off the record. In this roundtable forum, we continue to model our fnValues of Reciprocity, Humility, Authenticity and Inclusivity.