Friday, Sep 4, 2026 · 10 AM to 12:30 PM
Cedar Park, Austin
RE|CREATE, Theater Room
550 Discovery Blvd., Cedar Park, TX 78613
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Your work stays invisible until someone tells it properly.
The answer is already in the room. Get in it.
We grow the next stage of startups, SMBs, and enterprise teams through story, mentorship, and the resources founders actually need to break out.
Most founders are building on an island.
You are cut off from the people, the capital, and the talent your growth depends on. You do the work of ten, and the gap between where you are and where you swore you would be keeps widening while you are too busy to notice.
The fix is usually sitting inside someone else’s head, three tables away. MPower closes that gap with story, mentors, and resources, on a rhythm you can plan around.
The odds are public, and they are bad.
This is not a feeling about how hard building is. It is the failure data, and it has barely moved in thirty years.
20.4%
of new U.S. businesses fail within their first year.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
~50%
are gone by year five. Survival is a coin flip.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024
43%
of shutdowns trace back to the wrong product for the market.
CB Insights, 2026Almost every reason on that list is a judgement call, and judgement is the one thing that transfers between people in a conversation. That is the whole argument for building rooms.
Five ways we get you off the island.
Mentors
Someone has already solved your problem. We make the introduction.
Resources
Capital, tools, talent. The unfair advantages.
Education
Tactics you can use on Monday morning.
Community
A monthly table of people who get it.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.African proverb
MPower Studios
Stories, on the record.
Long-form conversations with founders who have been through the part everyone else skips.
Coffee first. Empire later.
Two cities, running now.
Founder Sessions run in Dallas and Austin. Chicago and Abu Dhabi are being built next.
Dallas
Austin
Chicago
Abu Dhabi
Running now
Being built next
Stop building on an island.
Free to join. Show up to a meetup, get on the list, or send us what you are building.