Run Tech Club

An incubator in sneakers: a community building a better world to run in.

Run Tech Club is a non-profit organization that is changing the game of access through sports for entrepreneurs, creatives, and athletes outside of traditional venture networks. We invest into people before their next big idea by providing access to entrepreneurship through weekly runs, community events, office hours, and fellowship programs. Through the power of sports and community, our mission is to promote economic inclusion and mental health for all who dares to run with it.

06/08/2026

What needs to change this week?

Running on proof
Signal Run — NYTW’26

Wildwood Ventures

06/03/2026

When it’s the easiest to quit. 🗣️

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06/02/2026

NYTW ‘26 — ((Signal Run))
RTC x Wildwood |

FRI | 7:30 AM ET | Tribeca
3 miles x conviction — convo pace.

Post run — Breakfast, coffee + founder convos

More than just filling a run — we run on proof.
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Dare to run with it.

05/29/2026

Happy birthday to our founder advisor .

Patricia is the founder of The Growin Lab, where she helps series A and B founding team scale traction without breaking rhythm.

05/07/2026

You don’t show up because you feel motivated. You show up because conviction is earned.

Every Friday. 6:30am. Before the world wakes up.

Miles x Conviction is how we close the week — clear the noise, stack proof, carry momentum into the next week.

Friday. Weekly. ~6 yrs and running.

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05/06/2026

Leaders aren’t always the loudest in the room.

Victor Chen has been running with us since the beginning. Entrepreneur. Builder. One of the quiet anchors of this community. He doesn’t lead by announcement. He leads by presence.

There’s a version of Steve Jobs most people know — the relentless, demanding, uncompromising version. What people talk about less is who he became.

Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985. Partly because of his inability to lead with empathy — to understand where people were actually coming from. He spent 12 years away. When he came back, he came back different. He had learned to listen first. To understand before he challenged. To meet people where they were before asking them to go somewhere new.

That shift didn’t make him softer. It made him more effective. It’s what turned Apple into what it became.

The most valuable company in the world was built by a man who learned how to listen.

Before Jobs passed, he looked at Tim Cook and gave him one piece of advice.
“Never ask what I would do. Just do the right thing.”

He’d watched what happened to Disney after Walt died — a company paralyzed, constantly asking what the founder would have done instead of making their own decisions. He didn’t want that for Apple. He wanted Cook to lead as himself. Fully. Without imitation.

This year, Tim Cook announced he’s stepping down. Under his leadership, Apple grew from a $350B company to $4 trillion in market value. The iPhone alone now generates over $200B in annual revenue.

He didn’t do it by asking what Steve would have done.

Now he’s passing the same advice to John Ternus.

That chain — Jobs to Cook to Ternus — is what real leadership transition looks like. Not a legacy to perform. A permission to be yourself, anchored to the right values. Victor carries that same permission naturally.

He doesn’t try to be the loudest or the first or the most visible. He shows up. He listens. He holds the energy of the room without demanding it. And he runs — every week, every Friday, before the world wakes up — because that’s what the work requires.

That’s the kind of leadership that doesn’t need a title to be felt.

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