The Hard Half with Ameet Shah - 5 to 9 Society

The Hard Half with Ameet Shah, Partner, Golden Ventures. Monday, November 9 at Lyla.

The Hard Half is a fireside series from 5 to 9 Society, the invite-only leadership community for founders and operating leaders who build.

Every founder and executive has the story they tell in public and the half they don’t. The hard things that happened outside the glamour of building a company or leading one. Those stories come out more easily in a room where people feel comfortable, the way they do over dinner with friends.

A 5 to 9 Society dinner is that kind of room. Small, intimate, one conversation, phones away, and held under the Chatham House Rule. What you learn is yours to take with you. Who said it stays at the table. No one is asked to share anything confidential. The evening is about being open and comfortable enough to tell your own story.

Every Hard Half opens with the same question, the one our founder, Christine Song, asked CEOs before she agreed to work for them. Thirty minutes with one guest. Then we sit down to dinner and the whole table joins in.

Our guests are the kind of leaders you usually only see on a stage, from a seat in the audience. At The Hard Half, they sit at the table with you. Same meal, same conversation, close enough to ask what you actually want to know.

Invite-only. All requests are reviewed and must be approved to attend (founders and operating executives only). Seats are $150, non-refundable once approved.

About AmeetAmeet Shah is a Partner at Golden Ventures, where he invests in commerce, consumer, communities and marketplaces. After years in the Bay Area, he came home to Toronto and co-founded Five Mobile, a product design and development firm later acquired by Zynga. He stayed on as GM of Zynga’s Toronto operations, running the P&L for several live games, launching the mobile ad platform and starting the company’s machine learning work. Earlier in his career he was one of the first employees at Tira Wireless. He studied Computer Science and Economics at the University of Toronto and is an active mentor, advisor and angel investor.