We exist for founders who measure success in years, not quarters.

Our story

Small Giants Academy began as a long table of friends in a kitchen in Lisbon. We were founders, editors, and operators in the middle of building things we cared about — and we kept finding ourselves asking the same kinds of questions, the kind that don't fit on a slide.

What started as a dinner became a reading circle. The reading circle became a retreat. The retreat became a fellowship. Five years in, we are still figuring out what we are — but we are clear about what we're for: making it easier for purpose-driven people to do their best work together.

We are deliberately small. We turn down more than we accept. We take our time. The people we work with become the people we work for, in a circle that has only grown more interesting each year.