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We took 40 founders into the deserts of Jordan, sat them in two chairs with nothing between them and the camera, and asked what it really costs to build something from nothing. DREAMERS. The loneliness, the identity crisis, the resilience, and the irrational hope that keeps you going. Narrated by the iconic Marc Porat, founder of General Magic. Premieres in full on YouTube this Thursday, 4 June, 18:00 GMT. Watch the trailer, then set your reminder. Link's in the comments.

This isn't a business documentary. It's a human one. Last year, by invitation of His Majesty and the Crown Prince Foundation, we brought 40 founders from the global OPUS founderverse to the Jordanian desert with one question: what does it really cost to build something from nothing? The answer is DREAMERS. A documentary about ambition, identity, failure, and the irrational hope that keeps founders going. Narrated by the iconic Marc Porat, founder of General Magic and one of the most important inventors of the last three decades. Two years in the making. Premiering on YouTube, Thursday 4 June, 18:00 GMT. Set a reminder. The link's in the comments.

The first Revenue Engine Hackathon is coming to OPUS House. HubSpot For Startups x Clay x ElevenLabs x lemlist are bringing 18 pre-series B startups together for one full day of hands-on GTM building. Supported by 23 expert mentors and engineers from all four partners, each team will bring their own data, ICP and revenue challenge, then build a live revenue engine they can actually use. Customer platform. Agents. Enrichment. Outbound. AI voice. Four best-in-class tools, eight build hours and one working revenue engine by the end of the day, all wired together in one room. 📍 OPUS House, London 📅 June 23rd ✅ Pre-Series B Startups 🚀 Applications now open https://lnkd.in/esne7nfy

You can't fix what you refuse to measure. Davide Pagnotta learned that watching a company he helped run rot from the inside. The product was fine. The culture wasn't. Wise Humanity is his answer. Hu.Be reads culture like a metric and catches burnout while it's still fixable. Paid pilots live. Pre-seed closing.

The spreadsheet was never meant to run the portfolio. Hasan Riaz spent 20 years watching complex capital get managed through messy reporting loops, static decks and version-control theatre. So he built Investrova. AI-native portfolio oversight for private equity, family offices and asset managers. Pilot conversations are already underway across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. One to watch.

AI ops is having a moment. Last week, OPUS members got direct access to Benjamin Samuels, former Head of Sales at WeWork and now EMEA lead at Invisible Technologies. The line that stuck: “If you were given 10,000 grads tomorrow, what problem in your business would you have them solve?” A simple question. A very different way to think about scale.

Overheard at OPUS Bootcamp. Deck fatigue. Founder edge. Investor homework. The niche problems AI eats in 30 minutes. A few lines made it out. The best bits stayed in the room.

The future of physical safety is being built by Nick Mills and Michael Houghton at Community Wolf. Real-time safety intelligence. 5M+ consumers reached. 1,000+ security firms waiting. Think Stripe, but for physical safety. In the spotlight, as they should be.

Mental Health Awareness Week may be ending, but founder mental health is not a one week conversation. Earlier this year, we took 12 international founders into the South African wilderness for The Founder Safari. No inboxes. No pitch decks. No performance mode. Just Big Five sightings, bigger conversations, and the kind of connection that only happens when people have the space to properly unplug. Because building something ambitious takes more than resilience. It takes perspective, trust, rest, and people who actually understand the weight of it.

Six bills from the King's Speech, decoded for the founderverse. Cash flow. Regulation. Competition. Europe. Energy. The state's digital spine. Every one of them shapes how UK founders raise, sell and build over the next decade. Subscribe to SYCM. Where founders read these signals first.