Founder Festival

Account

Your account is where you take ownership of your Founder Festival profile and tailor your experience. Once you've claimed your profile, this is the hub for editing details, managing who's in your world, and controlling privacy.

Claiming and editing your profile

Profiles begin AI-generated and unclaimed. Claiming verifies that a profile is truly yours.

  1. Find your profile and click Claim.
  2. Continue with LinkedIn or GitHub to verify your identity.
  3. Once verified, you're the owner.

As the owner you can correct and enrich your details, confirm or hide AI-inferred badges, add badges that apply, and set a preferred display name. Keeping your profile accurate matters: unclaimed profiles may contain inaccuracies, and a polished, verified profile makes a stronger impression and opens more doors. See Profiles for what each element means.

Adding family, partners, and pets

Founder Festival isn't only about you: many of our events are designed for the people in your life. From your account you can add a spouse or partner, children, pets (dogs, cats, and others), and other family members. For each, you can include a name, a birthdate, interests, and a photo.

Why add them? So you and your family get invited to the right events. Some gatherings are partner-friendly dinners; others are family days built for kids and pets. By telling us who's in your world, we can match you to events where they're welcome, and you won't miss the ones built for them.

You're always in control of how much is shared:

  • Keep it private to just you, or share the full details with specific claimed members you choose, or with all claimed members.
  • Public display is separate and optional. You can choose to show a discreet badge on your public profile (for example, "Daughter," "Child," or "12 year old son") without ever revealing names, photos, or birthdates. By default nothing about your family is public.

Managing email and contact

Your account ties together the email and contact details used for verification, event invitations, and introductions. Keeping a reachable email on file ensures you receive invites and connection introductions. When you connect with someone at an event, introductions are made over email, so an up-to-date address keeps those handoffs smooth (more on this in Events).

Privacy basics

Privacy is built in at every layer:

  • Family details default to private and are only shared as far as you allow.
  • Public family badges are opt-in and never expose names, photos, or birthdates.
  • Contact sharing at events is your choice: you decide whether attendees can reach you directly or only by request.
  • Endorsement and points visibility can be set per item, so you control who sees what you write and how much you contributed.

In short: nothing sensitive is public unless you choose to make it so. Explore the rest of the docs to get the most out of your account: