Raising The Bar

Drink a beer. Have a laugh. Learn how to build a spaceship. Raising the Bar is an award-winning social start-up with a goal of bringing intellectual content to the millennial generation via bar talks by notable University professors and industry leaders. In 2014, our NYC pilot event drew over New Yorkers to attend 50 lectures in 50 bars simultaneously, to be inspired by the words of some of the world’s greatest thinkers. Raising the Bar creates knowledge-driven events in bars and cafes in cities around the world. We collaborate with innovative companies and leading Universities in order to take inspiring educators and groundbreaking visionaries out of the classrooms and into local city bars. In 2015-2016 our model has expanded both domestically and globally in San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Melbourne. By holding these local events, we hope to offer access to intellectual content to over 5 million people worldwide by 2017.