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An invite-only, hands-on event for startup founders. Learn how to reach your audience across every medium — video, press, social, and events — with strategies you can put to work immediately.

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The To Do List Summit returns to San Francisco on Saturday, November 8.

Build your expertise.

Spend the day surrounded by top founders and experts from Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. Between sessions, we'll work together to brainstorm messaging, draft video scripts, and build your personal marketing playbook alongside other founders. Examples of expert-led sessions include:

  • RevenueCat on Building Its Brand From Day One (with special guest Jacob Eiting, founder & CEO of RevenueCat)
  • Scaling your brand organically through social media (with special guest Ana Pompa Alarcón, founder of Founders Registry)
  • Communications Lessons From Viral Moments
  • What Works (and What Doesn't) With Social Media
  • Designing Impactful Executives Dinner
  • The Art and Science of Viral Youtube Videos
  • Mastering Content Strategies
  • How to Host Successful Events
  • ...and more
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Billions in market value created.

From the experts who led communications, video, social, and events at Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz and advised thousands of startup founders.

Lindsay Amos

Lindsay Amos

Founder, TDLS & Amos Comms | Y Combinator, Square, Facebook

Lindsay is the founder of Amos Comms, where she advises startup founders and investors on communications strategy. From 2018-2024, she led communications at Y Combinator (YC), building the YC brand and guiding more than 3,000 startups on narrative, launch strategy, and media. In 2010, she was one of the first 30 employees at Square and its first communications hire. She worked on the team that designed and executed the comms strategy for Square's IPO. She also directed technology communications at Meta, overseeing global engineering offices, data centers, infrastructure hardware, and sustainability initiatives.

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Zach Both

Zach Both

Founder, TDLS | Y Combinator

Zach has spent the last decade turning startups into storytellers. For three years, he led Y Combinator's video team, growing its YouTube presence into the most-watched video channel for founders with 1.5+ million subscribers. Most recently, he launched Cursor AI's video presence, directing their first content and developing their YouTube strategy from the ground up.

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Lindsay Selvitelle

Lindsay Selvitelle

Founder, TDLS & LS /Events | Y Combinator, Mixpanel

Before starting ls /events, Lindsay's most recent role was Senior Director of Events at Y Combinator. While at YC, she spent 5 years planning and executing events like the batch retreats and alumni reunion weekend. She built out YC's investor receptions, community events and revamped Demo Days at the iconic SF Masonic. Before YC, she was the first marketing events hire at Mixpanel and spent 5 years building and leading the first marketing and events experience team. Before tech, she gained her deep knowledge of the event's industry from the inside as Senior Event Managers at Starwood and Marriott Hotels.

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Joan DeGennaro

Joan DeGennaro

Founder, TDLS | Event Strategist & YC Founder

Joan plans and hosts high-impact events that drive results for startups, spanning marketing, recruiting, and community building. Previously, she spent five years at Y Combinator working on Startup School, Co-Founder Matching, and events to support early-stage founders. Before that, she held roles at Deepgram and Oscar Health, managing operations and partnerships. Her entry point into the startup world was as a founder in Y Combinator's W16 batch, where she led a nonprofit focused on sanitation access in rural India. She studied at Northwestern University and lives in SF, despite strongly identifying with the tri-state area (CT, NJ, NY).

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Maria LaMagna

Maria LaMagna

Founder, TDLS & Press Publish Studio | a16z, CNN, WSJ

Maria was the head of social media for Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) from 2022-2025. She was responsible for the growth of a16z's presence on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram, while working cross-functionally with the marketing and communications leads of each vertical. She also provided guidance for the companies in the a16z portfolio, Talent x Opportunity cohorts, and initiatives including Tech Week and "The Ben & Marc Show." Prior to a16z, Maria was a journalist and editor, who wrote for and worked at publications including CNN, CNBC, MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg.

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Jacob Eiting

Jacob Eiting

Cofounder, CEO, RevenueCat

Jacob is co-founder & CEO of RevenueCat, the platform that powers and simplifies in-app subscriptions for leading iOS and Android apps. A former mobile CTO turned founder, he grew RevenueCat into a multi-million-ARR SaaS and co-hosts Sub Club, a podcast on subscription app growth. Earlier, Jacob was the founding engineer at MinoMonsters (YC W11).

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Ana Pompa Alarcón

Ana Pompa Alarcón

Founder, Founders Registry

Ana is an LA-based entrepreneur and Indigenous Mexican immigrant who has scaled startups in 38 countries, raised multiple venture rounds, and built cross-border capital partnerships. She leads Founders Registry, supporting historically excluded founders to secure funding, scale, and enter programs like YC, Black Ambition, and Techstars. With a 65K+ audience, Ana champions Black, Indigenous, Latine, and other systemically excluded entrepreneurs through talks, panels, and workshops.

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Amelia Salyers

Amelia Salyers

Marketing, Playground AI | a16z, Mixpanel

Amelia is an editorially minded marketing leader who blends strategy, analytics, and sharp taste with deep respect for audience time. She leads marketing at Playground, an AI graphic designer. Previously, she built content and marketing teams from scratch at Mixpanel and Inkling, and scaled editorial/content operations at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Her teams' work has reached tens of millions, generated millions in pipeline, and shaped the thinking of executives, founders, enterprise buyers, policymakers, and investors.

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  • A promo video for your startup
  • A press pitch that lands
  • Social media posts ready to go
  • An event playbook
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