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# How bar meetups became a 40,000-member CPG media and events company
- URL: https://www.medianexis.com/how-bar-meetups-became-a-40-000-member-cpg-media-and-events-company/
- Published: 2026-10-01T16:04:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T16:04:33.000Z
- Description: Simon Owens’s Media Newsletter reports that Daniel Scharff turned informal CPG meetups into Startup CPG, now a 40,000-member Slack community with roughly 70 events a year, podcasts, newsletters and over 100 sponsors.
- Author: The Signals Desk
- Tags: Creators, Simon Owens, Simon Owens: Startup CPG B2B media origin story

*Signal from* [*Simon Owens's Media Newsletter*](https://simonowens.substack.com/) *·* [*Simon Owens*](https://www.medianexis.com/tag/by-simon-owens/) *·* [*read the original*](https://simonowens.substack.com/p/how-a-few-local-meetups-spawned-a)*.*