One of the main reasons Yeung doesn't make money off this side hustle is because he can't. He's never taken a finder's fee for the countless introductions he's made, or charged for his newsletter which reaches more than 20,000 subscribers. Sometimes there's fire dancers, other times a man in a dancing banana suit.īut despite throwing events attended by thousands, Yeung has never made a cent off his parties. Sometimes he'll get alcohol donated, other times it's a cash bar. Sometimes he convinces the venue to let him use it for free, other times he'll rustle up a few hundred bucks from a sponsor to cover the cost. Events range fom the monthly rooftop mixer in Brooklyn, to the more intimate, invite-only Junto Club (named after a secret society founded by Benjamin Franklin), to a SXSW garden party in Austin, a Beyond Basel party in Miami, a tech social in LA, and an motley assortment of bar crawls, club nights, fireside chats, boat outings, spin classes, and scavenger hunts. Over the past three years, Yeung, who lives in New York, has thrown nearly 200 events, attended by more than 15,000 people. 'You don't understand until you go, there was just a different vibe,' said one regular at Andrew's parties. 'It's very strange to meet someone wearing nothing but a towel,' he said. He says he was recently 'recognized' in an Equinox locker room. He is the unassuming impresario who's turned his nights-and-weekends hobby of hosting tech meetups into a sprawling events empire, and become a minor Twitter celebrity in the process. 'I don't like being the center of attention.'ĭespite that, attention seems to be all Yeung is getting these days. 'I prefer to watch from up here,' he said.

Leaning over the railing of a water tower looking down over the thousand or so partygoers he's assembled with an expression that could be described as content but not necessarily happy.

He's definitely not in the corner with the art stars smoking out the CMO of a global branding agency who, by the looks of it, hasn't been stoned in decades. He's not being offered mushroom chocolates by a baby-faced UX designer or getting pitched on a sex-free sex party happening in Gowanus next month. Of course Yeung is nowhere to be found in the crush of thirsty young professionals besieging the bar or among the piles of libidinous revelers getting handsy in the pool cabanas. They've all gathered at the personal invitation of a 27-year-old Google product lead named Andrew Yeung. Guests include an Argentine filmmaker who's heavy into Jewish mysticism, a ghost writer for C-suite executives, a supermodel college dropout turned AI technologist, a political consultant who arranges visas for tech CEOs, a blockchain entrepreneur with a novelty soap business, a Belarusian expat responsible for Minsk's first tech incubator, the founder of a dating app just for oral sex, and an upstart art dealer who claims an enviable collection of Basquiats. The sun is setting on a crowd that, even by the standards of a Brooklyn roof party, would be considered eclectic. His parties have struck a chord with young techies who are dying for human connection.Despite throwing events attended by thousands, Andrew Yeung has never made a cent off his parties.What started as a pandemic-era park meetup has turned into a sprawling events empire.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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