Coffee with an Olympian Next Week?

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Joel Hansen
May 05, 2026

Happy Tuesday fam,

Welcome back to Stay Curious — a newsletter I write once per week on 3 things keeping me curious, or I send one of you a 100 dolla bill for catching me if I skip.

Here’s what’s on my mind this week:

1. Vinod Khosla and Ryan Holmes Fireside Chat

Next month our team’s hosting a virtual fireside chat with one of the biggest names in VC/startup world: Vinod Khosla.

​Vinod Khosla is the founder of KhoslaVentures.com and Sun Microsystems (which sold to Oracle for $7.4 billion). He’s also an early backer of OpenAI, Square, Stripe, DoorDash and Juniper Networks in 1996 (which created a 2,500x return) and is often cited as one of the best VC investments in history.

He’s not out there on shark tank or going viral on tik tok, but he’s tapped into the biggest deals and ideas in the world.

Sign up here if you wanna be there for our hangout with him and Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes.

2. Coffee with an Olympian Next Week?

We’re hosting Dayna, the 3 time winner of Vancouver’s marathon and a canadian olympian, for a 5KM jog and coffee event next weds @ 7am.

If you wanna join, there’s a few spots left.

Oh, and the event is at La Marzocco, the cool espresso brand that sells machines for $10K+. So come for that too since they’re making us all coffee afterwards.

3. Marathon Learnings

I did the marathon 2 days ago. These were some learnings (which feel like they all apply to day to day life):

  • hydrate and carb up: or you’ll die

  • find the shady pockets: when it’s 28 degrees Celsius

  • pacing is everything: don’t burn yourself out

  • smile and accept high 5’s: it makes the journey more enjoyable

  • don't forget to be present: you’re doing the thing,

  • few moments in the city like this happen in the year: it felt so rare and beautiful to see the city all excited (with no boo’ers) about the race. so often in society, there’s for and against. but this one, every background, age, and person was hyped on life. was a beautiful thing to see

Anyways, im icing the legs, back on the bike, and hungry for the next one.

Send me a reply if you are training for a run this year.

P.S. im doing this run next month if you wanna join…

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