The Feudal Instinct

The Feudal Instinct

From EXIT Podcast by Bennett's Phylactery

November 14, 2025 · 49 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the mission and activities of the EXIT fraternity, focusing on building family empires and community engagement.

EXIT is a fraternity dedicated to building family empires. Learn more here: This is a “director’s cut” of my speech at the Old Glory Club/Weaving event in Portland this weekend — a few added digressions and elaborations. Skilos asked me to speak on organizing our guys. Just to give you my resume, back in 2021 I started EXIT, which is a fraternity dedicated to building family empires. Today, we have 270 active members. We’ve raised over two million dollars for EXIT startups and projects. We’ve run business incubators, machine-learning boot camps, we crowdfunded a film, we sponsored Coronation Ball, and we organized Natal Conference two years running, which is a national conference on birth rate decline. We have fifteen group calls a week: we talk about entrepreneurship, homeschooling, civic engagement, local intelligence, fitness, tech, real estate, investing — anything that serves the mission. Articles are never paywalled. Subscribe for free full articles and weekly EXIT news in your inbox. Paid subscribers get access to recorded calls and in-person EXIT cocktail hours. We have monthly chapter meetups in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Salt Lake, Seattle, Nashville, Denver, DC, and New…

People in this episode

Host: Bennett's Phylactery

Topics covered

  • family empires
  • entrepreneurship
  • business incubators
  • civic engagement
  • local intelligence

Keywords

  • EXIT
  • entrepreneurship
  • family empires
  • business incubators
  • civic engagement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EXIT, Old Glory Club, Weaving

Places: Portland

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