The 3rd Space blog
Recaps from our monthly socials — cocktail parties, padel & prosecco nights, founder meetups. The icebreakers, the stories, and the people who made each night.
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“First sign you've lived in Bucharest too long: you don't get annoyed in traffic anymore.” Everyone laughed. Then I realised it was about me.
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Everyone came with a Claude skill they'd built — and showed us the actual work it was doing. None of them are developers.
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We were supposed to finish at 9:15pm. At 9:45pm, nobody had left — and a room full of people had just realised Claude was more than a chat box.
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“Greeks invented pizza.” “The light was in my eyes!” A few of the lines overheard at our August padel social — nobody remembers who won.
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Don't start with “what do you do?” That was the one rule at our Founders & Builders Night — and it changed every conversation in the room.
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“She has 32 relationship requirements.” Not a sentence I expected to overhear at a padel party — but here we are.
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We tested a simple theory: prosecco + padel + 25 social strangers = a surprisingly great night. It worked even better than expected.
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If you could compete in an Olympic sport, what would it be? “Arguing with 5-year-olds.” “Sleeping.” And that was just the warm-up.
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One guest wrecked their car three times in one hour. Another drove theirs into a lake — with themselves still inside. All from one simple icebreaker.
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I've hosted a lot of cocktail parties. But this was the first time I tried this format at this scale — and I wasn't sure how it would land.
Read the recap →Twenty-five seats, once a month, somewhere good in the centre of Bucharest. One email when a new event opens.
Twenty-five seats a month. One email a week. That's the whole arrangement.