Re: Tech Events - feb-6-2026


I've been working in the tech events space since May of 2025.


I never wanted to be "that guy" doing events and building community, but there were two compelling reasons to do so:

  • I needed a better inbound strategy to meet people like me in CDMX
  • The incumbent product offering for events and tech community was high noise low signal

I'll start with the first point: I was not going to meet the movers, shakers, builders, king makers, influencers, nor the people who were qualified enough to test my world view just rambling around the city on ecobicis and at the cowork. I needed an effective inbound strategy and leverage play that would naturally attract such people to me.

Thus when the Cursor Ambassador opportunity fell across my lap, I found the perfect platform to bootstrap a community of builders in CDMX who were ahead of the curve in AI.

I was randomly paired with a partner named Javier Rivero from Stripe, who co-founded this community with me and we were lucky in that:

  • We were mission aligned
  • We thought most events in tech were crap
  • We like teaching workshops and sharing knowledge

I was the one who stressed the importance of creating a tool agnostic community and brand, which has now become AI Builders México.


Javier was the one who stressed the importance of being workshop and utility first. He also decided our name in 5 minutes and did all the brand identity work.


Our third co-founder was actually one of our first speakers, Ricardo Garcia, who is the most talented developer I know in Mexico.


And from humble beginnings, thousands of connections, over 15 events, and many blue-chip brands later, our community is stronger than ever


We've established ourselves as the go-to AI community in CDMX and are now producing events with Google Deepmind, v0 by Vercel, and Cursor. We sell nothing, promote building, teach how to use new tools, and steward many of the biggest brands and companies in the world.





Onto the second point: The incumbent product offering for events and tech community was terrible.


I actually haven't been to many tech events in my life, but that's probably because of the negative feedback loop of:


  • people who are in it for ego
  • the circular community who just go to events and aren't actually building
  • the clout chasers
  • the people selling you shit

That being said we've been doing this not even a year so what do we know?


What interests me is not the repetition of doing events, but the possible procreation of new ideas, companies, and projects.


Generally the people running communities are either looking for upfront monetization, deep value extraction, or the worst, ego gratification.


What's in it for me?


  • Make the tech ecosystem in Mexico City kick ass
  • Meritocratically bring the best companies and tools into Mexico
  • Build the best community of founders and builders possible
  • Modernize the local tech ecosystem and bridge the talent gap with the Bay
  • Modernize venture capital in CDMX
  • Meet cool people, build cool things, and have fun along the way