[ e-commerce ]
Matty
Founder of Merchants of the Sun
Jewellery designer, creative director and surfer who grew up between Bali and Australia. Bootstrapped Merchants to eight figures/year and building a SaaS tool for Shopify.
Surround yourself with founders building million-dollar lives.
The average member is 28, running a $2M/yr online business. Live, build and travel with them. From castles in the French countryside to treehouses in the Costa Rican jungle.
6500+ applications · <10% accepted
A note from Jai, AOM co-founder
The part nobody warned you about.
You're making decisions nobody around you has to make. Carrying weight that doesn't switch off. 2am grinds. Shower thoughts at 7am. Months of work that don't move the number.
Your partner listens. Your oldest friends nod along. Your family is proud of you. But none of them can actually understand you.
You want fewer DMs and more dinners. Fewer Slack threads and more shared houses. Fewer "we should catch up sometime" and more "I'll fly in next week."
You don't need another networking event or another Slack group. You need a few genuine, curious peers who'll challenge your thinking, push back on your bad ideas, and actually book the trip when you say let's go.
Our members
The kind of people you'll be rubbing shoulders with.
Our average member runs a $2M/yr business.
[ consulting ]
Giada
Founder of Dayrise
Runs a one-person, $1.5M/yr talent consultancy for creators & influencers, with 17M+ combined followers. Travels "way too much" and prefers an old book store over any other store.
[ agency ]
Kemp
3x Founder
CTO of an influencer-management agency with 130 full-time employees. Lives between Bali & Dubai and loves playing padel, surfing and hosting dinners.
[ marketer ]
Jay
Founder of Real Growth + 3 more
A writer turned marketer. Built 3x 7-figure book funnels while travelling to 66 countries at 25 years old. Now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[ SaaS ]
Andrew
Founder of Limber
Built & sold an e-commerce brand for mid seven figures and is now building an AI powered app to improve mobility. Spends his time in the gym, learning guitar and playing golf in Australia.
[ e-commerce ]
Dajana
Founder of John Four Sixteen
A designer, painter, creator and owner of a lifestyle clothing brand. Spends her days between her home in Germany and surfing up the coast of Portugal.
[ e-commerce ]
Anders & Mads
Co-founders of Supplipet
Best friends since 6 y/o, together they run the largest dog supplement brand in Denmark. They travel full-time, joining us on Residencies in Costa Rica and Spain.
[ AI ]
Sunil
Co-founder of Magic AI + Ping Pong Society
Born in London, a competitive table tennis player and creator of the Magic AI smart mirror, which has grown to over $3M/month in revenue.
The membership
Three core benefits.
One family.
We meet in three places. IRL Experiences around the world. On live calls once a month. In a private hub that never sleeps.
01
IRL Experiences
A villa in Spain. A castle in the French countryside. A treehouse in Mexico. A camper van in New Zealand. 10-20 members under one roof for a week or two, living and working and sharing ideas. Trained AOM hosts push you out of your comfort zone, spark bigger thinking and fast-track speed to lifelong friendships. These experiences are at-cost price for members and are booked based on demand. Usually 1-2 per month.
See more on @theartofmondays
02
Virtual Campfire Chats
Live sessions with the whole community. Someone brings the hard question they've been sitting with: the cofounder split, the launch that flopped, the feeling of not knowing what to do next, and we think out loud together. It's the closest thing to a dinner table the internet has built.
03
The Private Hub
Always on. Drop a half-formed idea at midnight, wake up to three thoughtful replies. Find a member in Lisbon for coffee tomorrow. Ask for a brutal read on your sales page before you ship it. This is how the friendships compound when nobody's flying anywhere.
Live and build with your people,
around the world.
Founder Residencies are the gravitational centre of the community. Not retreats. Not conferences. We rent a villa, a castle, a treehouse, a camper van, and we live, work, eat and play together.
JapanGreeceItalySpainBaliCosta RicaMexicoNew ZealandCanadaAlaskaFranceAustraliaSouth Africa
Upcoming IRL experiences
Europe
Ios, Greece
May 31 – Jun 10, 2026
8 founders
A hidden villa and private beach in the coves of the Greek islands.
Europe
Mallorca, Spain
Jun 20 – 30, 2026
11 founders
Spanish villa engulfed in rolling hills.
Europe
Bordeaux, France
Jul 12 – 17, 2026
100 founders · entire village
Camp Mondays 001 - Village takeover in the French countryside.
North America
Alaska, USA
Aug 17 – 28, 2026
13 founders
A beautiful family-style lake house in the Alaskan wilderness.
Coming soon
Asia
Private Island
Sep 13 – 18, 2026
50+ founders
Camp Mondays 002 - COMING SOON
Europe
Rome, Italy
Sep 24 – Oct 4, 2026
14 founders
Ancient streets, long Roman lunches, and a villa built for building.
Asia
Lombok, Indonesia
Nov 1 – Dec 1, 2026
18 founders · 30 nights
A month of sunrise surfs, infinity pools, and three sea-view villas in the hills of South Lombok.
Asia
Kusatsu Onsen, Japan
Jan 18 – 28, 2027
12 founders
Ancient hot springs, snow-dusted mountains, and twelve founders building, connecting, and playing.
Apply to join us at the next one.
ApplyLow ego.
High ambition.
One giant think tank.
E-com, agencies, SaaS, creators, Web3, education, online services. Generous, high-signal founders helping each other make better decisions, move faster, and enjoy the ride more.
Most represented industries in the room
E-commerceAgenciesSaaSCreatorsCrypto / Web3EducationOnline services
Built by founders.
Held together by friendship.
"I didn't expect to have as much fun as I had. It really surpassed my expectations, mainly the quality of the people. My work output was a little lower these 12 days than normal, but the insight I got from going deep with people doing similar things to me has more than made up for it."
Dino Ambrosi
Founder | Project Reboot
Digital Wellness Education
📍 California, USA
"Top five experiences of my life. Jet skiing on the lake. Flying on a plane on top of the glacier. Sober partying on the boat with the rest of the crew. If you're on the fence, just book it."
Andrew Tran
Founder | Limber
Mobility & Stretching App
📍 Sydney, Australia
"I thought I had to do it all alone. I kept making up excuses, but I kept having this feeling of 'you gotta go, you gotta go.' I trusted it. One of the best decisions of my life. Action takers, doers, not just talkers."
Rina
Founder | Dreams Overdue
Retreats & Coaching
📍 Nomadic
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Why we built this
Most people hate Mondays.
We wanted to create a world where you lose track of the days, not because you're burnt out, but because the work feels meaningful. Where building a business doesn't come at the cost of your health or your relationships.
Less competition, more collaboration. Where a rising tide really does lift all ships.
And where "rich" isn't just measured in money… but in friendships, memories, and passport stamps.
We're two Aussies who met online in our twenties and bonded over the same things: self-growth, business, travel, health, and a love of learning.
At the time, our lives looked very different.
One of us skipped university, taught himself everything online, launched multiple businesses, failed most of them, and started travelling the world. After giving away two brands and living off savings for six months, everything changed when he surrounded himself with founders who were already living the life he wanted. Slowly, almost quietly, he became one of them.
The other took the more traditional path. Uni. Startup jobs. Corporate ladder. 60-hour weeks freelancing on the side. On paper, everything looked great. But a flashy LinkedIn profile couldn't hide the fact that deep down, something was still missing. Like there was so much more to life that he hadn't experienced yet. Like his ambition was being wasted.
A few phone calls later (including fifty conversations with founders asking one simple question), a new idea began to take shape.
We didn't want to build another brand.
We wanted to build a new home for people like us.
Creators, founders, and builders who want more out of life.
And selfishly, we wanted to be in rooms with people smarter than us. People who would challenge us, inspire us, and raise our standards.
That's how Art of Mondays began, and how Founder Family was born within it.
Founder Family is our private global community for founders who are living, or building, their dream lifestyle.
We host international residencies. Jam on business. Trade ideas. Build better habits. Live better stories.
And we do it alongside people who genuinely get it.
We don't believe in escaping work. We believe in redefining it, together.
See you on the inside x
Jai Howitt & Evan Bryce Riddle
Co-founders of Art of Mondays
An honest fit check.
[ How we vet ]
Founder Family works because we vet every member, by hand.
We manually review, interview, and reference-check every applicant. We believe a community is as strong as its weakest link, so we take a lot of care in this process.
Less than 300 of 6,500+ applicants made it in01/
Application
You tell us about your business, your numbers, and your personal aspirations.
02/
Filter
We screen for our most important criteria: minimum $10k USD/month in revenue, intent, energy, values, and business type. Most applications stop here.
03/
Alignment Call
If you pass the initial vetting, we'll invite you to have a conversation with our alignment team, to make sure the fit is mutual.
04/
Member Reference
Existing members can flag or vouch. Keeps the room high-trust and weeds out transactional energy.
05/
Founder Review
Our founders (Jai & Evan) review all applications and interviews and give the final yes/no before extending offers. We'd rather say no than risk bringing the wrong person in... our people are our product.
06/
Onboarding
If it's a mutual yes, you'll be invited to settle the membership investment, onboard and join the next intake, doors open every Monday. On that day you get full access to all benefits and founders inside.
One more thing
Your people do exist.
They're building from laptops. Living between cities. Chasing better ideas. Quietly wondering where the others are.
Takes around 10 minutes.
Common questions