
Partnership Meets Progress
Join us in Mar Vista for a brunch & learn hosted by Evolution, a unique opportunity tailored for startup co-founders who are curious, open, and willing to look honestly at their relationship. This event delves into the complexities of co-founder relationships—crucial for navigating the highs and lows of the startup journey. Through expert-led discussion and peer learning, you will explore themes such as shifting from friends to colleagues, strategic misalignments, role evolutions during scaling, unresolved individual performance issues, loss of trust, and cap table disagreements. Gain insights into effectively managing co-founder dynamics and strengthen your relationship for both personal growth and business success.
What to Expect:
Learn: A focused session led by seasoned startup co-founders and executive coaches, exploring key strategies for strengthening co-founder relationships.
Practice: Hands-on exercises to apply effective communication techniques like nonviolent communication, mirroring, offering gratitude, and responding to bids for connection.
Connect: Opportunities to network with like-minded peers, sharing experiences and solutions in a supportive environment.
Event Details:
WHEN: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
WHERE: Private home in Mar Vista
COST: Free!
Secure your spot today for an opportunity to transform your co-founder dynamics and drive your venture's success.

Meet the Facilitators
Matt Auron
Matt Auron, Managing Director at Evolution, is a master coach who supports leaders in fast growing companies scale into their potential with long term, sustainable success. As co-founder of Evolution, Matt’s combination of deep intuition, organizational experience and behavioral science expertise allow him to design powerful and customized development solutions for their clients. He has worked with clients such as Slack, Snapchat, change.org, Coursera, Tile, Eero, Collective Health, Dropbox and Radiology Partners.
Matt is also a founding partner at Evolution Ventures, an early stage venture fund that combines coaching with investment for seed- and other early-stage companies. Thus far, the team has invested in Slack, Radiology Partners, and Wade&Wendy.
Danya Shults
Danya Shults is a Partner at Evolution, an executive coach, and an early-stage startup advisor. She coaches leaders who want to learn and grow so they can live and lead in a more meaningful, effective, and healthy way. She supports founders and CEOs of early-stage startups and rising executives at growth-stage tech companies.
Previously, Danya spent 15+ years building businesses, brands, teams, and communities from scratch and at scale across tech (Skillshare, Patreon), venture capital (Spark Capital), non-profit (Teach For America), and as the founder of a wellness & spirituality company (Arq).
