Good People.
Good Intentions.
Good times.
A private community of founders, vetted for character, not just revenue.
Are you a fit?
“Yeah, the name is odd, but don’t let that fool you.”
What Is Baby Bathwater?
“We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.” — Jerry Garcia
Baby Bathwater started in 2014, built by founders for founders with no business plan in sight. One unforgettable event, and the community built the rest. Not a mastermind, not a conference, not a group you age out of in a few years. Just the community and the in-real-life events we wished existed and couldn’t find, so we built it.
Over a decade later, it’s a few hundred founders supporting each other, trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater on the journey to their own versions of success.
Kind words from Good folks
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"Entrepreneur events are usually 95% people that are looking for these quick fixes. What you have at Baby Bathwater is the 5% that actually care about true impact and longevity."
Dan Martell
Founder, Martell Ventures
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"I've now got folks to call when I leave events and a support system that has been invaluable for scaling our business and utilizing e-commerce strategies."
Duke Phillips
Founder & CEO, Ranchlands
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"This has changed my business. More importantly it has completely shifted the way I think. And I have this amazing support system to just ask for advice."
Idahosa Ness
Founder, The Mimic Method
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“I was worried before I came to this conference that it would be a bro-fest, but I have been so pleasantly surprised. Every single woman that I have met is a badass in her own right.”
Juliet Starrett
CEO & Founder, The Ready State, WSJ Bestselling Author, and Professional Athlete
As Featured In
Baby Bathwater is exceptional at creating meaningful connections. Every attendee is vetted and there are no sales pitches. Interactions are authentic and valuable.
You won't find corporate panels or shallow pitch decks. Instead, you'll find a tight-knit community of accomplished entrepreneurs, investors, and creatives. Equal parts retreat, think tank, and party.
We treat it more like a marriage than a transactional partnership.
Hollis Carter, co-founder, on building Baby Bathwater with renowned therapist Esther Perel.
Read the full articleThe participants focus on having real conversations within a framework of trust and candor. Conversations aren't about who has the most prestige, but about which ones are ready to talk about and tackle the specific challenges they face with an overarching theme of kindness.
The Entrepreneur Support System
Entrepreneurs and Founders have dynamic lives that change rapidly. Baby Bathwater provides support and grows with you.
Community: The People Are the Product
We’re boutique on purpose. Curation and trust are the whole job, and we don’t take either lightly.
Good People
Most groups hand you a curriculum and let the crowd fill in around it. We flipped it. Serendipity’s too important to leave to a chafing dish or a loud Slack channel, so we manufacture it, the right people in the right place, on purpose. When something’s on fire, you want the founder who already put it out, one call away. The people are the product.
Good Intentions
Everyone comes through a two-way process, because, as Vonnegut said, “damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” Transactional intentions ruin a community, so there’s no pitching, ever, not from speakers, not from us, not from members. We look for the long-game players who give before they take. That’s where the value hides, the trust that opens up everyone a member knows, because nobody’s working an angle.
Good Times
Business and life are hard enough, you need a good time on the long ride. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater chasing your version of success. We curate for people who do serious work without taking themselves too seriously, the kind who laugh about the weight over a drink. Online, everyone’s fake. The real stuff happens in person, and we know how to make it worth flying back for.
RESOURCES: The tools members tap year-round
The Tub is the hub. Our members-only app for community, team, and resources, 24/7/365. Not a loud Slack or Skool group, a thoughtfully built access point to everything worth having.
Tell the team what you’re working on and who would be worth knowing, and they hand-pick the introduction. No algorithm, no cold outreach, no working a crowd. The right person, warmed up and expecting you.
Take the hot seat and the team goes to work before you ever show up, building out your problem and gathering the right minds to crack it. A personal board of advisors built around your biggest issue. The kind of focused, seasoned attention you’d usually pay a fortune for, aimed at whatever’s keeping you up at night.
The events happen many times a year. This is the other 360 days. Hit a wall and post it, message a member directly, or send up a flag to the team, and answers come back from people who’ve already been there. It’s how the relationships keep going between trips, and how problems get solved without waiting for the next flight out.
Everything you tap on your own time, in one place. Sessions recorded so you catch them on a drive or at the gym, courses and playbooks members built from running real companies, plus the vendor list and member-only deals that save you the money and the months you’d spend vetting. And since it all comes from members, a recording can turn into a warm intro to the founder who gave it.
Where We Meet IRL
Many times a year, all over the map, so one always fits your calendar. Off the screens and hosted so even the busiest folks end up fully present. Real life, real people, building real businesses.
Flagships
The big kahuna. Full buyouts, all-inclusive, every detail handled from the second you land, the food, the music, the wellness, the accommodations, the content, all set in places you actually want to be rather than some fluorescent corporate ballroom. It feels more like the best wedding or reunion you’ve ever been to than a “biz conference.” The serendipity flows like wine, and you fly home lighter, with real friends, actionable resources, a few new perspectives, and the support to tackle your version of success.
Adventures
Almost no “business structure,” on purpose. These are about breaking from the day-to-day and finding the magic that only happens when you’re heli-skiing in Canada, floating the most remote wilderness in the United States, or surfing the Kelly Slater Surf Ranch. Cut the internet and tune in the connection, because something shifts when founders use their bodies, get some perspective, and take on once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list trips together. We’ve heard “best day of my life” more times than we can count. You come home with stories, skills, perspective, and friends you earned in a way that’s irreplaceable.
Masterminds
Small, intimate, and built for depth. By the end you’ll know everyone there well past the surface, the real human, not the LinkedIn one. Bring the problem keeping you up at night and watch a handful of peers aim everything at it, then trade the same back. You’ll work hard and go deep, then fly home with fresh perspective, an actionable plan, and accountability. Refreshed, too, because even the heavy lifting comes wrapped in the classic Baby Bathwater hospitality and style.
A peek at places we have been
Good People Find Their People.
A small, hand-picked group of founders who get the weight you carry, chosen for character as much as the company they built.
Applications take five minutes. We read every one. Not everyone’s a fit, and that’s fine, the conversation is how we both find out. If we think you would be at home here, we will reach out for a call. If we do not, we will tell you why, and may have a recommendation.
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