Steal Like A Founder

Thu May 21 2026 at 10:00 am to 11:15 am UTC-07:00

Ansir Innovation Center | San Diego

Beyond Singular
Publisher/HostBeyond Singular
Steal Like A Founder
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Join us in person to learn how to steal smart ideas and think like a badass founder!
About this Event

As builders and entrepreneurs we want to always be innovating; but most brainstorming begins (and ends) in the same obvious places: domain expertise, market and industry trends, and whatever everyone else is doing. You end up with slightly better versions of the same idea.

This hands-on workshop introduces a brand new approach: strategic creative theft.

Learn how to find patterns across unrelated industries, technologies, cultures, behaviors, and business models, then translate those patterns into practical ideas for your own ventures. Through fast-paced exercises, real problem solving, and AI-assisted exploration, you'll practice expanding your “theft radius” far beyond familiar domains.

Using a dedicated tool, we will use AI not just to polish ideas, but to provoke better ones: to surface analogies, challenge assumptions, remix business models, and view problems from unexpected angles.

Ideal for entrepreneurs, founders, product folks, marketers, and innovation-minded professionals looking to develop sharper ideas without waiting for inspiration to strike.

Bring a real business, product, customer, or growth challenge you are working on. And leave with fresh angles, usable prompts, and a repeatable method for turning outside inspiration into practical next moves. Have your phone or laptop handy for working.

Participants will:

  1. Learn a repeatable framework for creative problem solving: Discover how to break down a business challenge, identify its underlying pattern, and search across unrelated industries or domains for useful analogies.
  2. Use AI as a creative accelerant: Practice using AI as more than a productivity tool, that helps you expand your “theft radius,” generate unexpected comparisons, and find ideas outside your own expertise or market.
  3. Develop the theft mindet: Gain the skills needed for pattern recognition in a human-AI world that is effective and solves real problems.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Ansir Innovation Center, 7670 Opportunity Road, San Diego, United States

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