Past event24 Sep 2026

What Almost Broke Me, Sydney.

Founders heard four honest stories about what almost broke them, Carlos’s among them, then put their questions to the panel. A Fayl Tales night at Dovetail in Surry Hills.

Date: Thu 24 Sep 2026
Where: Dovetail, Surry Hills
Format: Founder panel
Host: Fayl Tales

Carlos Santini speaking on the Fayl Tales panel at Dovetail

Sydney

On the panel

2026 · Meetup

What founders took away

What they left with.

The stories

Four founders, no slides

Ten minutes each: the setup, the moment it almost broke, and what came after. Carlos told ours.

The Q&A

Straight answers

An open Q&A with the panel on the parts of building a company that rarely make it online.

The podcast

The episode, on demand

Carlos recorded an episode of the Fayl Tales podcast the same day. It went live in October.

Afterwards

Time with founders

Food, drinks and conversations with Sydney founders after the panel.

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Who was in the room.

Dozens of founders and builders from Sydney’s startup community.

On the panel

Four founders, four stories.

Fayl Tales is a storytelling night where founders share the moments that almost broke them: ten minutes each, no slides, then questions from the room.

Carlos joined the September panel in Sydney to tell our story, with Dovetail and Standard Ledger backing the night.

The podcast