The recent Spike #Community Meetup in Colombo was honestly one of the better rooms to be in. The kind where you don’t walk in expecting clarity, but you walk out carrying it anyway.

For 3 hours straight, we sat in on a dynamic fireside conversation featuring Chathuranga Abeysinghe, and Bhanuka Harischandra. The discussion was anchored around Sri Lanka, around possibilities, around the reality of building a startup culture that can actually scale Sri Lanka forward.

And the big realization wasn’t flashy. It was simple and unanimous.

Building Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurship ecosystem is not a solo mission. It needs collective momentum. It needs aligned execution. It needs collaboration that stretches from policymakers to communities to the people actually building things. The culture we keep hyping up only becomes real when everyone starts pulling in the same direction.

It was a reminder that innovation doesn’t live in isolation. It lives in networks, communities, mentors, builders, and teams who keep showing up to stitch the ecosystem together even when the cameras aren’t rolling.

Big credit to the Spike team for doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes and organizing these meetups. The recent event saw 450+ young entrepreneurs in one space, exchanging ideas, learning, networking, and doing what matters most: growing together without ego, without gatekeeping, without hesitation.

That’s how communities are built. One conversation at a time.

Spike isn’t just hosting events. They’re hosting momentum. And for Sri Lanka’s startup future, that matters more than we acknowledge.

If you were in that room, you’d know.
If you weren’t, here’s the takeaway: when founders talk about the future, you don’t scroll past. You pay attention.