Meeting a CEO of a startup incubator
Hi all, I’m meeting the CEO of this startup incubator(fairly large in our field, they have about 12-14 startups under them) based in CA in about 2 hours.
I’m a senior in college (his alma mater as well) and I’m graduating in June.
We met for the first time at a mixer his team organized on campus, I texted him the same night thanking him for the opportunity and asked if he was open to a call to discuss opportunities and my ideas. Did not get a response then but I later heard through a friend in the industry who said that he felt I “jumped the gun”. My thoughts were that there’s no jumping the gun in the startup world, if you want to talk to someone or build a connection, you do it instantly. This was October 2025. Fast forward to April 2026, I met him again and he asked me to setup a time to meet.
Our interests align but I don’t know what he expects.
Any guidance would be appreciated