Introducing River: Powering local IRL community at a global scale
We're powering worldwide meetups for The All-In Podcast, My First Million, Bryan Johnson, This Week in Startups, Superteam, and more.
👋 Hey everybody,
Rae here — co-founder of River. Thanks for being here for our first-ever newsletter!
This will be monthly-ish. Normally I’ll be sharing what’s going on with events around the world and how the best communities are organizing themselves.
We’re excited to officially launch River, an in-person events & social platform turning audiences into communities. We orchestrate hundreds of meetups without creators having to do any work.
How it works:
We spin up “save the date” events around the world
Your audience RSVPs or applies to host
We vet hosts & the platform guides them to be great
Featured communities on River
SXSW unofficial events
All-In, MFM, and Don’t Die events happening so far. Post your unofficial event for free.
SXSW unofficial meetups →
e/acc
The River team are e/acc stans — help us make these meetups a thing.
e/acc meetups →
Founder Fridays by This Week in Startups
Meetups by founders, for founders hosted around the world.
Founder Fridays meetups →
Superteam x Solana
Hosting IRL listening parties for the monthly ecosystem calls.
Superteam meetups →
All-In
Besties are hosting ongoing events. Plus, save the date for worldwide meetups for Episode 175 on April 20th.
All-In meetups →
My First Million
We turned a few tweets and a mention on the pod into 100+ meetups with 2k members.
MFM meetups →
Bryan Johnson // Don’t Die
Over 6,000 DON’T DIE members have attended 200 events in 75 countries.
Don’t Die meetups →
EOS
The Entrepreneurial Operating System run by Connor Tomkies.
EOS meetups →
What other communities would you like to see on River?
Let us know in the comments 👇
About River
How it works
We make it easy for distributed communities to get together in real life. See what we’ve shipped →
Why creators & hosts love it
How we’re different
River differentiates from existing event tools in how we leverage crowd-sourced hosts to make great events happen while having tight controls to protect your brand and community.
Managing events at-scale
Crowd-sourcing hosts
Quality control & permission layers
What people are saying
Early traction
We released our MVP in August in time for All-In Summit, then launched to beta on November 27th.
Meet the team
Co-founders Rae, Berni, and Ryan worked together at Sauce Labs back in 2013. See our full team on the About page →
Thanks for reading, see you next month. ✌🏽
— Rae & The River Team
P.S. We’re looking for strategic partners to help us take River to the next level. See my live pitch of River at Jason Calacanis’ public demo day (starting at 28 mins) and reply to this newsletter if you’d like to connect.
What other communities would you like to see on River?
The Fifth Column, Bari Weiss/TFP, Parent Data (Emily Oster) 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻