Community
Founder Family, the application-only membership at the centre of the business. The company says it has taken more than nine thousand applications and accepts fewer than one in ten, and it publishes a six-stage entry process running from application through a revenue and intent filter to an alignment call. The people are here as members rather than as names: the company names its own principals publicly, and this archive does not identify anyone else.
Part of Art of Mondays
13 moments in this segment.
- - What happens when you join. Published on 12 June 2025, this seven-minute film is the oldest dated piece of Art of Mondays material found in this harvest. The site runs it as a member testimonial mashup, cutting together accounts from people who joined.
- - Las Vegas street at night. A member stands under the neon canopy of a Las Vegas street, lit by the signs overhead. The Founder Sports Club page lists Los Angeles, Las Vegas's neighbours and around eighty other cities where it says the club is running.
- - Long table on a mountain deck. A group eats around a long table on a wooden deck cut into a forested slope. Shared meals appear as often as sport in the group's photography, matching a pitch built on dinners and shared adventures rather than on introductions.
- - A room of founders on the floor. Around a hundred people fill a bare wooden-floored room, sprawled and waving at the camera. The scale matches what the company calls Camp Mondays, the twice-yearly gathering it says brings up to a hundred founders into one place.
- - Virtual Campfire Chat. A video call grid of roughly twenty smiling members, the format the company calls a Virtual Campfire Chat. Art of Mondays says these monthly live sessions run to the harder questions as often as the business ones: why you are chasing the number, and who you would be if the business disappeared tomorrow.
- - Kemp, member profile. Kemp is profiled on the Founder Family members page as a three-time founder and the technical chief of an influencer-management agency the site says has 130 full-time employees. The listing places him in Amsterdam, living between Bali and Dubai, and mentions padel, surfing and hosting dinners. The description is the company's own.
- - Andrew, member profile. Andrew appears on the members page as a Sydney founder who the site says built and sold an e-commerce brand for a mid seven-figure sum and is now building a mobility app. He also appears in the reviews section describing a residency as a top five experience of his life.
- - Dajana, member profile. Dajana is listed as a designer and painter running a lifestyle clothing brand, with her location given as full-time traveller between Germany and the Portuguese coast. Roughly half the members the company profiles are described as living between countries rather than in one city.
- - Sunil, member profile. Sunil is profiled as a London-born competitive table tennis player and co-founder of a smart mirror company, which the site says has grown past three million dollars a month in revenue. That claim, like the other member figures, is the company's own.
- - Anders and Mads, member profile. Anders and Mads are listed together as co-founders and best friends since they were six, running what the site calls the largest dog supplement brand in Denmark. The company says they travel full-time and have joined residencies in Costa Rica and Spain.
- - How Art of Mondays says it vets. The company publishes a six-stage entry process: an application, a filter on revenue and intent, an alignment call with one of three named team members, a reference from an existing member, a final review by the two founders, and onboarding on a Monday. It says fewer than 300 of more than 9,000 applicants have made it in, and that it would rather say no than bring the wrong person in.
- - The average member, by the company's account. Asked who is actually inside, Art of Mondays answers that the average member is 28 and running a two-million-dollar-a-year business across e-commerce, agencies, software, artificial intelligence and real estate. It says it skews young on purpose and that members come from more than thirty countries. These are the company's own figures about its own membership.
- - The island giveaway. Alongside the Camp Mondays island trip, Art of Mondays ran a public giveaway whose first prize was a ticket plus a free membership. Entries closed on 2 August at midnight Central European Summer Time and the company said a winner would be drawn at random and announced on 5 August. It stated that every winner still had to pass the same vetting as any member, and that it would redraw if a drawn winner did not qualify. The entry form doubled as a Founder Family application.