Why Momentum?

I used to think the hardest part about professional growth was getting enough attention. People talk a lot about “building your brand” or “putting yourself out there.” Yet the more I tried to network, the more it felt like running uphill through a swarm of random coffee chats, LinkedIn requests, and poorly matched introductions.

At some point, a friend said something that changed how I viewed the whole process: “If every meeting is a toss-up, how many do you have to flip before landing on the one that matters?” It occurred to me that meeting the right person at the right time is less like a coin toss and more like a rigged game—rigged by all the factors we can’t see: your background, your connections, your location. If you live in a tech hub or an influential city, you get a better rigging. If you went to a brand-name school, better rigging still. That’s the invisible advantage so many people in major cities or high-profile networks enjoy: they’re always one collision away from an important introduction.

I started thinking: What if we could give anyone that same kind of serendipity—no matter where they are? Not by forcing them to go to hundreds of meetups, but by cutting through the noise and figuring out who they should actually talk to. That’s the origin of Momentum: a way to manufacture something that used to be left mostly to chance.

Momentum’s idea is straightforward. We match you with one person every week who’s likely to matter to you. Because we’re not tossing dice; we’re looking at your goals, your experience, and your interests, and matching them with someone else whose background complements yours. Sometimes it’s an investor and a founder. Other times it’s a seasoned exec and a first-time manager who share an industry. The best matches are the ones that feel obvious in hindsight: “Of course we needed to meet.” But they aren’t obvious if you rely on random chance.

I’ve noticed the best connections often happen when both parties come with open minds. That’s why Momentum also shares little nuggets of insight each day. These “insight cards” might be an article summary or a trend observation—anything to spark new thoughts. For me, it’s like a daily habit of staying curious: read the insight, see if it connects to something I’m working on, store it away for the next conversation. Usually, you don’t realize how valuable that tidbit is until you drop it into the perfect moment—then your new contact says, “I was just dealing with that!”

It’s funny how frictionless it feels once you have a ritual. You log in, see who’s next, confirm your slot (which Momentum already guesses you’ll be free for), and that’s it. When the time comes, you show up on a call, or maybe meet at a coffee shop if you’re local. No spammy requests, no hunting for mutual times. The entire process is as if your best friend introduced you to the perfect collaborator—week after week.

Momentum, fundamentally, is about making those collisions happen regularly instead of rarely, without forcing you to rely on random luck or exclusive networks. It’s a way of saying, “You shouldn’t have to be at the right place at the right time. Let’s create that place and time for you.” When you think of what that means at scale—professionals who might be stuck in roles that aren’t growing, or founders in small towns who never meet the right investors—it feels powerful.

I like to think Momentum is not just a tool, but a new rhythm of connecting. A consistent, structured drip of fresh ideas and faces. You take the call, glean one or two useful insights, share something helpful, and then you both go your separate ways—except now you’re tied by that subtle thread of possibility. Multiply that by fifty or a hundred weeks, and your network becomes something you could never have planned if you’d tried.

That’s the kind of “impossible planning” that leads to real opportunity. You can’t script which introductions will turn into mentors, friends, or life-changing partnerships. But you can set up a system that tilts the odds in your favor. The result might look like luck to outsiders. But you’ll know it was made by a design that used to live only in the heads of a few well-connected insiders. Now it’s an engine that runs for anyone.