× Adult Supervision Needed
After yesterday's call · May 2026
What we shook on, in writing
Same dialect. Same speed.
Year one to year one.
You said you'd pack your bag. Here's the rest in writing.
Adult Supervision Needed50+ events in Year 1 · 2 cities (Atlanta + Charlotte) · 5 revenue streams · 1 founder, face-to-face
She & HER8 brands committed pre-launch · 3 Pride markets locked '26 → '27 · 145+ brand + funder pipeline · backed by Google for Startups + Nvidia
Recognition, first
"We don't ask for permission. Built with intention — a place where you don't have to perform, shrink, or pretend."
— ASN, in your own words
Year one. 50+ events. Atlanta to Charlotte, mobile bartending and a coffee bar rolling out, listening rooms and nightlife and a vendor network — all of it built without asking. We were in the same call, and the dialect was the same: move fast, move with intention, fire the team that doesn't get it, don't let anyone be bigger than the program.
She & HER isn't here to hand you a title. We're here because the conversation already started, and it was the kind of conversation that doesn't happen often. Here's what we shook on — in writing, so you can hold us to it.
You said "I'll pack my bag right now."
This is what we'd be packing for.
Who's at the table
Two founders. Both Year 1. Both no permission.
No managers. No bigger-than-the-program. Just two people who built the thing themselves and would rather talk to each other than to anyone else's middleman. Worth saying out loud who's actually on each side.
ASN · Founder + Creative Director
Ayana Gidron
IG/Threads: @adultsupervisonneededAtlanta · Year 1 · 50+ events
"What you see is what you get, probably 99% of the time."
Charlotte-raised, Atlanta-based. Project manager turned content creator turned cultural producer. Packed a two-door Camaro, drove to Atlanta, lived in a 2BR with a best friend for 3.5 months while figuring it out. Started Another Lesbian Podcast — which became Adult Supervision Needed. Year one closed with 50+ events. Mobile bartending, equipment rental, mobile coffee bar (Aug–Oct '26 rollout), media production, vendor + creator network, Member Pass / All Access subscription. Multiple revenue streams, one founder, face-to-face only.
From the meeting: "Two things can always be true at once." The room we'd build together is exactly that — She & HER's inclusive sapphic platform and ASN's pro-Black activations, both real, both protected, neither needing the other to apologize.
She & HER · CEO + Founder
Desirée Mayon
IG: @vonneMayonHouston-born · 6 languages · backed by GfS + Nvidia
"I'm a very move-fast person — but I move with intentionality."
15+ years engineering at Google (Sr. PgM, Fuchsia + Privacy/Security), Microsoft / Xbox (Principal PM — $80M ML-driven gaming expansion), University of Cambridge (Head of Product, SupTech Lab — 10M+ regulated records), Etsy, Nordstrom. Just won $50M for Black women vs. Google (pay disparities). Contributor to Black ChatGPT. Product + Data Lead for Pregnant & Black. Backed by Google for Startups + Nvidia. Coded She & HER herself. NYC Pride 2026 VIP, AfroTech main stage, Amsterdam + UK Pride 2027 confirmed.
From the call: "You can't be bigger than the program." Same dialect, same speed. The reason this conversation is moving fast is because we both already know what we don't want — and what we want is to build the next thing without the people who couldn't keep up.
ASN · Year One, in motion
Receipts from the first year — and what's stacked next.
The math, on paper
What each side actually brings.
- Events: Listening Experiences, Coffee Break Pop-Ups, Signature Nightlife (21+/25+), Vendor & Creator Network, full Event Services (bartending, planning, production, equipment rental, media)
- Member Pass / All Access — subscription revenue model already in market
- Original event IP across the calendar: Queer Karaoke, Galantines Juke Jam, R&B Juke Jam — and more rolling each month
- Mobile coffee bar launching Aug–Oct 2026; mobile bartending picking up every summer week
- Ayana solo at the front. No manager, no buffer, no apologies. Goal on the record: retired by 35, first million in 18 months.
- NYC Pride 2026 confirmed — She & HER VIP / Powder Room at PrideFest, every main-stage performer routes through us
- Amsterdam World Pride + UK Pride locked for 2027
- AfroTech 2026 main-stage speaking confirmed
- Apple in conversation: She & HER as a women's-only category, not LGBT — political and structural
- Backed by Google for Startups + Nvidia; founder ex-Google, ex-Microsoft, ex-Cambridge; recent $50M class action win for Black women v. Google on pay disparities
- House of Gucci / Chanel in early talks (tech company as fashion house representation — first of its kind)
- BET, Essence, Ebony, NYT all inbound
+ What stacks together
Two Year-Ones meeting at the right time.
- Tinder-grade founding partner play. ASN as She & HER's Founding Experiential Partner — same model Tinder used to land their early footprint. Public partnership, named in launch, on the record.
- NYC Pride is the proving floor. Six weeks out. She & HER's VIP Powder Room at PrideFest + ASN's curatorial energy in the same room = a moment the rest of 2026 builds on.
- Mutual exchange, not vendor relationship. She & HER builds the tech you mentioned wanting (in the meeting — the app you'd been thinking about for months); ASN runs the social + the rooms. Tech ↔ events. Neither side a contractor.
- Move-fast both directions. 90-day trial, no big legal lift, no manager layer, no bigger-than-the-program energy. We see how it lands. If it's right, we keep building. If it's not, no harm done.
ASN as She & HER's Founding Experiential Partner — a 90-day trial starting at NYC Pride, structured so we both eat and no one's bigger than the program.
Brand dynamics, by room
Two registers, one partnership.
She & HER stays inclusive — sapphic humans across race, identity, place. ASN stays pro-Black — the room you've built without apology. Same partnership, different choreography depending on which room we're in. We talked about this on the call; here it is, on paper.
The all-sapphic room
Mixed-company sapphic gatherings — across race, identity, geography. She & HER carries the platform, the audience, the capital, the production runway. ASN brings the curation and the social muscle — the standard for what "intentional space" feels like, the taste, the rooms-that-feel-like-rooms energy. Inclusive at the front; ASN-coded in the bones.
You lead the curation. We carry the platform.
The pro-Black space
Black femmes, QWOC, Black queer joy on its own terms, your terms. ASN's name bigger on the flyer. You set the tone, the guest list, the music, the feel. She & HER shows up as a platform partner — visible, supportive, present, never leading, never apologizing for not being the center. The autonomy of what you've built in Year 1 stays fully yours.
Your room. We carry the quiet support.
The exchange
What lands on each side.
What this brings to your table
- Founding Experiential Partner billing — named, public, on the record (the Tinder model)
- Tech build help when ASN needs it — Desi codes, ASN doesn't have to pay for an app down the road
- Capital + production resources for activations we co-design
- National + international visibility (NYC, Amsterdam, UK, AfroTech) without the booking lift
- Inbound press (BET, Essence, Ebony, NYT) lands on the partnership, not just the platform
- A partner that funds the work and never asks you to be bigger than the program
What we'd want from ASN
- One co-presence at NYC Pride 2026 (June 28) — see how the room actually feels together
- Curatorial eye on She & HER's all-sapphic activations — the taste, the room-making
- Social media muscle — the part of the game Desi has explicitly said she's not playing
- Honest feedback when we bring you the work — what lands, what doesn't, what to change
- 90 days. After that, we both look at the data and decide if year-two-together makes sense.
The shape over time
90-day trial. No multi-year contract.
One weekend, one room, both names on it. She & HER's VIP Powder Room at NYC PrideFest + ASN's curatorial fingerprints on it. Travel + lodging + an honorarium that reflects what you actually bring — pitched to NYC Pride to underwrite, not coming out of your pocket, not coming directly out of ours either. Low-stakes on paper, high-signal in practice. If it lands right for both sides, the rest of the 90 days opens. If it doesn't, no harm done, no public commitments outstanding.
If NYC lands right: ASN is named in writing, on the record, as She & HER's Founding Experiential Partner. Co-branded launch moment, joint content across both platforms, the partnership goes from internal language to public-facing. The Tinder model, but ours — same room-building, different game.
She & HER has Amsterdam World Pride + UK Pride locked for 2027. If you want to come along, the international footprint becomes yours too. If 2027 is your retire-by-35 year, the partnership stays in 2026 + we plan an honorable handoff. No fixed roadmap. Opt-in at every step. The end-of-trial checkpoint is built in on purpose.
The near-term ask
NYC Pride 2026 — June 28. Atlanta + Houston, meeting in NYC.
Six weeks out. She & HER's already got the VIP Powder Room — every main-stage performer routes through us. The room is the room. What we're asking is whether ASN's curatorial energy belongs in it (we think yes; you said yes), and whether NYC Pride pays travel + a real honorarium so the only thing you have to bring is the energy that already exists in Year 1.
What we'd build, exactly, is yours to shape with us. Format, music, run-of-show, the after — your call. We bring platform, audience, sponsorship runway, the NYC Pride logistics. You bring the curation, the room-making, and the standard.
Twenty minutes on Google Meet or in DMs when you've read this, and we sketch the specifics.
Open the door, on your timing.
20 minutes — Google Meet, DMs, or just text me directly.
Or DM @vonneMayon on IG.