Steal Like A Founder
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 10:00 AM PDT – 11:15 AM PDT
Ansir Innovation Center · 7670 Opportunity Rd #255, San Diego, CA 92111, USA
Hosted by Prashant Anilkumar
As builders and entrepreneurs we want to always be innovating; but most brainstorming begins (and ends) in the same obvious places: domain expertise, market and industry trends, and whatever everyone else is doing. You end up with slightly better versions of the same idea. This hands-on workshop introduces a brand new approach: strategic creative theft. Learn how to find patterns across unrelated industries, technologies, cultures, behaviors, and business models, then translate those patterns into practical ideas for your own ventures. Through fast-paced exercises, real problem solving, and AI-assisted exploration, you'll practice expanding your “theft radius” far beyond familiar domains. Using a dedicated tool, we will use AI not just to polish ideas, but to provoke better ones: to surface analogies, challenge assumptions, remix business models, and view problems from unexpected angles. Ideal for entrepreneurs, founders, product folks, marketers, and innovation-minded professionals looking to develop sharper ideas without waiting for inspiration to strike. Bring a real business, product, customer, or growth challenge you are working on. And leave with fresh angles, usable prompts, and a repeatable method for turning outside inspiration into practical next moves. Have your phone or laptop handy for working. Participants will: Learn a repeatable framework for creative problem solving: Discover how to break down a business challenge, identify its underlying pattern, and search across unrelated industries or domains for useful analogies. Use AI as a creative accelerant: Practice using AI as more than a productivity tool, that helps you expand your “theft radius,” generate unexpected comparisons, and find ideas outside your own expertise or market. Develop the theft mindet: Gain the skills needed for pattern recognition in a human-AI world that is effective and solves real problems.