Hey Founders,

Happy December: Mariah Carey’s come out of hibernation. You’ve already watched Elf three times. The Christmas lights are twinkling. Labs 16 applications are open. And you’re slowlyyyy leaving to holiday happy hours earlier and earlier. It’s December, and with that, we have our inaugural LOI 2025 Wrapped on deck, ready to send your way.

(Even Mark Cuban’s getting a copy).

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🎶 LOI’s Dance-In-The-Kitchen Moments

• Flying out Eric Ries (from the Lean Startup) for our North House Launch

• Having Tara Bosch back in person to share about her new startup idea…

• Record-breaking zoom call AMA with Mark Cuban (1,000+ RSVPs)

• Record-breaking Labs 15 Showcase RSVP count

• $100,000+ raised for North House through our anti-gala

• Hosting Mike Fata and Jake Karls for our 2025 YEY event

• We’ve passed 15 Teams working out of North House

• Getting Google Cloud and a few other exciting brands locked in as phone booth sponsors for our new coworking space

Speaking of cool branding, huge thanks to our pals at Premier Graphics, who gave us an incredible discount on all our phone booth needs for North House.

If you’re building fast. Premier Graphics make sure your brand keeps up. That’s right.

They handle everything from design to production to installation, so your team can stay focused on growth while we bring your brand to life. They do Brian Scudamore’s 1-800-Got Junk?! Trucks and North House’s signs. So they can do your branding too.

(Mention North House to Taylor when you reach out for a little coffee offer on him when you meetup).

🎁 LOI’s WishList

In case you know anyone who wants to help with our wishlist this holiday season, give us a holler or reply to this email

• 🎁 Email intro to Melanie Perkins (founder of Canva) for a virtual fireside

• 🎁 A Scandinavian Spa / Whister Founder Ski Day for 50 people

• 🎁 5 More $100K/Year Program Sponsors for LOI

• 🎁 One more phone booth sponsor at North House

• 🎁 An intro to QuickBooks head of sponsorships

• 🎁 A super cool Summer Founder Camp Retreat Space / Speakers

• 🎁 Coffee and Snack Sponsors at North House

• 🎁 Sam Altman zoom call with all of our LOI alumni

• 🎁 Tim Hortons gift cards

Thanks, Santa.

On a side note, reply to this email if you can help us with any of the dreams above.

🥁 Things We’re Stoked for In 2026

• 🥁 Our new national partnership with Boast AI

• 🥁 Our TD event with Kirstine Steuart and Jennah Dohms

• 🥁 Our 2026 YEY event plan (more coming soon)

• 🥁 Our new hires: we’ve had over 400 applicants

• 🥁 Our Labs 16 cohort (apply ASAP if you’re curious)

• 🥁 and lots more we can’t quite share yet…

Visiting North House in the future? Here’s some cool things to check out nearby our space provided by the Six app.

Planning your 2026 Goals?

We joined a call with Jesse Itzler the other day and wanna share the recording with you. Here’s the link to how Jesse plans his 2026.

Our top takeaways were:

• Be sure to end the year light (declutter, delete, unsubscribe) etc

• Write 20 letters to those who impacted you most

• Set up your top misogi goal of the year (decade-defining goal)

• Plan 50 weekend adventures that you have in your calendar

• Everything that’s not a “hell yes”, take it off your goals list

• Less is more with goals

How do you set goals?

Now, get back to your holiday plans.

Much love,

The LOI Fam

P.S. Reply and tell us what you’re looking forward to over the holidays