Introducing Grass

Meet Strangers In Groups Of Six

(This is Mat Sherman; I moved back to Substack, FYI.)

I’m starting a new side project called Grass. Grass is an initiative where I set up dinners around the country with tech/startup folks who live in the same city but may not already know each other. The goal is to have you sitting with people who are roughly at the same stage in life as you—give or take a bit. If you go to local events/meetups and feel like no one can match your energy, smarts, or industry knowledge, Grass solves that.

How This Works

First, apply to Grass by telling us a bit about yourself, whom you’re looking to meet, and sharing your socials. After we conduct some initial research and vetting, we’ll invite you to the network. Once accepted, you will start receiving dinner invites. If you choose to attend, you will be seated at a table with five other tech people who live in your city—people you probably don’t know yet, but whom we believe you’d enjoy talking to, based on your onboarding info. Everyone will be high-quality and, hopefully, uniquely interesting to you, as I carefully curate each table.

After the dinner, you can tell Grass (me) whom you liked and would want to continue getting to know. If the feeling is mutual, I’ll share your contact details with each other, and you can take it from there. I am essentially playing matchmaker at scale, and there is a small admin fee to RSVP for a dinner, covering this effort.

These dinners will have a variety of attendees: founders, investors, and students; singles and married folks; college dropouts and PhDs. And plenty more… Many dinners will take place, but all you need to know is that the five other people sitting next to you were picked for a reason.

Looking to meet a hot single techie? We’ve got you covered. Looking to have a non-transactional convo with an investor? You’re in good hands. Just looking for more tech friends who care about the same weird shit as you? We’re on it.

When we simply break bread with five strangers we know nothing about, a deeper level of bonding can occur than if we go in with preconceptions. Let us know who you’d like to meet during onboarding, and you may just find yourself sitting next to them at your first dinner.