About S&A

I could give you the usual spiel about bridging creativity and commerce, but you'd fall asleep and I'd feel like a fraud.

I’m Tauhir Jones and I spent 15 years watching brilliant people circle each other like teenagers at a middle school dance.

The artist who needed capital. The investor who needed culture. The founder who needed both.

Everyone at their own events. Everyone speaking their own language.Everyone missing the point.

I wasn't watching from the sidelines like some networking anthropologist. I was living it.

Most people think networking is a numbers game. That’s like trying to cure loneliness with a phonebook.

From combat zones to Silicon Valley boardrooms, I’ve lived in worlds where decisions mean everything.

Gallery openings that change careers. Startup chaos where nothing’s guaranteed and you’re moving fast and breaking shit.

Each world taught me something the others desperately needed to know, but nobody was building the bridge.

My job isn’t networking. It’s translation.

The best opportunities live in the spaces between industries.

VCs know money but miss culture entirely.
They’ll fund yet another AI app but can’t see why a filmmaker’s storytelling framework could revolutionize customer acquisition.

Artists understand human behavior better than most MBAs, but they’re stuck thinking scale means selling out.

Tech founders build brilliant solutions to problems nobody has because they never learned to ask the right questions.

So, I started putting these people at the same table.
The agenda was dinner. That’s it.

When you remove the pretense, people do business.

The Conditions for Capital and Culture Collide

Invite only. No tickets. No panels.
When money isn’t the reason people are in the room, the conversations are real.
We don’t sell access. We create the conditions where real partnerships form.

70 percent follow-up rate between guests
Last quarter’s SF dinner generated three partnerships and a two million dollar deal.
One dinner in Chicago connected a fintech founder with the cultural strategist who helped them crack international markets they’d been failing at for two years.

Over 15 million in outcomes from conversations that didn’t feel like work
These aren’t happy hours. They’re accelerants.

Cultural arbitrage
When I see a cosmetics founder stuck on scaling sitting next to a tech exec who built a billion dollar beauty platform, that’s not coincidence.

That’s Tuesday night.

Who Shows Up

We look for people solving problems that move industries forward.

Every seat is chosen with intention.

• Former and current execs from Coinbase, Uber, YouTube, Spotify, NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Netflix, OpenAI

• Emmy-winning directors, gallery owners, Grammy-nominated producers

• Venture partners, family office advisors

• Cultural strategists advising Fortune 500 boards

• Artists scaling global audiences, founders who ship products instead of just raising rounds

The Rules

1. No Elevator Pitches

Save the TED Talk energy for TED. This isn’t Shark Tank and nobody’s here to pitch.

1. Recording Requires Permission

What happens at dinner stays at dinner unless everyone agrees otherwise.

1. Boring People Don’t Get Invited Back

Life’s too short and the truffle pasta’s too expensive.

The Selection Process

Every seat is curated based on who needs to meet whom.

Every conversation is architected around problems that seem impossible but aren’t.

The serendipity isn’t accidental.

We don’t ask, “What do you do?”

We ask:

“What problem are you obsessed with solving that everyone else has given up on?”

We look for people who think in systems and act with intent.
People who’ve lived enough life to know that the best solution isn’t always in your own industry.
It’s at the edge of someone else’s.

When a Grammy winner and a Series B founder realize they’re solving the same core problem from opposite angles, that moment is worth more than any ticket price.

The old playbook says pick a lane. Specialize. Scale. Exit.
That’s fine if you want to build a business.
We’re building a world

Your Invitation

If you build things worth building, develop ideas worth spreading, or invest in either, you belong here.

If you're hunting for leads, free food, or LinkedIn connections, there’s a WeWork event somewhere with your name on it.

Everyone else networks. We create conditions where breakthroughs happen by design.

The table is set. Apply now. Seats are limited.