Name: I Hope You Get Rich (An Asian American Pitch Event)
Start: 2025-05-30T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-30T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Latino Founders

I Hope You Get Rich (An Asian American Pitch Event)

A pitch event featuring Asian American business, social, and creative entrepreneurs with live audience voting.
About this Event

Following in the footsteps of Pitch Black and Pitch Latino, I Hope You Get Rich is a two-part series providing mentorship, coaching, and a platform for emerging entrepreneurs. However, the first year of this competition is not centered on massive cash prizes—it’s about something deeper: visibility, feedback, and community support.

Presented by Tom Sollitt, a Korean American Adoptee and founder of that produces the , Oregon’s largest Asian-centered festival, I Hope You Get Rich aims to strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit through collaboration, shared knowledge, and providing a network of support. They are working in partnership with Tong Zhang and Zhou Fang.

How It Works

May 2 – Initial Pitch & Coaching at TOMO Bouldering Club Up to five participants will present their ideas and receive feedback from mentors and coaches at , a brand-new space built from the ground up by a group of friends who envisioned a better climbing experience. TOMO embodies the spirit of ambition and perseverance, making it the ideal setting to launch a competition centered on bold ideas, resilience, and turning dreams into reality.

May 30 – Final Pitch & Live Audience Vote at Latino Founders After working with mentors and refining their pitches throughout the month, participants will return for a final pitch event hosted at , in a powerful show of mutual support within Portland’s startup ecosystem, the event will bring together entrepreneurs and community members for an evening of innovation, collaboration, and celebration. A live audience will vote for the top three entrepreneurs based on their final pitches.

*Throughout the. month of May the participants will have access to a pool of coaches, mentors, and opportunities that will help them develop their pitch.

We are putting up a modest sum and will be working on increasing that amount. $500 for the top prize, $300 second, and the third $100. The final pitch event will be ticketed and those proceeds will go towards covering rentals, catering, and the remainder evenly distributed amongst the participants.