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A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline
Publisher description: Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam, a trained ballerina with a small chain of boutique studios, built the connected-fitness company Mirror and sold it to Lululemon for $500 million in cash less than three years later. […]
TechCrunch | Sep 20, 2026 | Connie Loizos
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But though their new companies couldn’t be more different, Board and Heirloom share the same north star: bringing people together, offline, in the same room. If he was going to build something after Walker & Company, he wanted it to bring people back together. Six Bells has raised roughly $3. 8 million.
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