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4 months ago, 14 builders chose to uproot their lives and put all their savings on the line to move to SF and build at The Residency
for those of you who want to see their insane progress over the last 4 months, this is what our demo day was for 🧵👇
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it's Feb 2024
we didn't have plans to expand to Bangalore. but
@hardeep_gambhir
saw a concentration of builders in India and thought why not
he flew from SF in May to expand there.
to this day, he can't decide which is better: SF or BLR
story of The Residency BLR🧵👇
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The world’s education system needs a refresh 💫
We are hosting a design-a-thon to surface new ideas for exceptional and scalable education systems.
Win:
- 30 min convo with
@sama
- Over $2,000 in cash prizes
- Acceptance into
@_TheResidency
Learn more 👇
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it is time to build your dreams, once again. 🫵
The Residency is back.
with new branding, a completely revamped website, and three new locations. 📍
applications due soon, read below to know more 🧵
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🎉 WINTER BREAK SURPRISE 🎉
APPLICATIONS LIVE TODAY
for our third cohort
starting may 2024
for anyone who wants to build rather than sit in lectures, this is for you 🫵 🧵
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We got keys to our first official house in San Francisco today.
It is a big day for us.
We’re having our first cozy weekly demo day here on a bunch of mattresses and boxes. 🥹
And this is just the beginning. 🫶⚡️
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The Hacker House Hackathon!
our first multi-location hackathon with exciting prizes and cracked builders; running from July 12-14th!
theme: techno-optimism
vibes: 48 hrs in a hacker house building alongside the most cracked folks you know!
know more below 👇
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211 applied.
80 interviews.
17 of them made it here.
these are our crazy ones. the ambitious. the rebels. the ones who want to build something great outside of classrooms.
this is the residency's second cohort in SF and Berkeley🫶
see what they're building below 👇
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a sneak peak into today’s orientation — more on this coming soon. ;)
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we have one seat open at our office of The Residency in Bangalore.
we're looking for 1 person who wants to build their idea full-time amongst other ambitious, driven and authentic builders for 2 months. June 15th to August 15th.
vibes are heads-down, quiet and family-like.
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this one is for the crazy ones 🫶🌎
The Residency is the place for these crazy ones to build their ideas and change the trajectory of this planet.
applications due in 2 days. don’t wait.
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sf2 - our newest house
here you will find robots hanging out, 3D objects being printed, and a secret Harry Potter-esc guest room
the house is filled with 12 super talented builders, see what they are up to this summer 👇
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we had 140+ builders from 3 continents and 6 of our locations for our Hacker House Hackathon. making this hackathon truly unique.
the result was
@BasedBeffJezos
pulling up, 5 ppl taking 48-hour trains to come to our BLR location, robots being made.
some highlights and winners🧵
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our first ever
@_TheResidency
demo day happened last Thursday.
immaculate vibes, breakthrough projects and immense growth of our 14 residents - all seen in a 2 hour event with some of our best friends and investors.
and this is just the beginning. 🫶🚀
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🚨 Applications Closing 🚨
apply THIS WEEKEND to be considered for The Residency's second cohort
continue on to see what living The Residency for 4 months, starting January might look like 👀 👇
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Just found out
@paulg
has already written about exactly why we exist:
“Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, as they tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers.
When you take people like this and
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25 amazing builders came together this summer for the residency in SF and Berkeley
this week they showed off their hard work at
@SHACK15sf
, could not be more proud 🥹
a 🧵
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the film has developed 🎞️📽️
the residency's Chapter 3 Demo Day in a POV format 👉
see one of our residents doing an "AI Agents" chant in the middle...
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🌎 Breaking News 🔥
@BillGates
& his foundation have teamed up with The Residency for the next 2 years! 🚀
With their backing & AI tutors leveling up 🥷 we're closer than ever before to bringing effective & affordable higher education to everyone around the world🫶🌐✨
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🥁 Drum Roll Please 🥁
We received 38 submissions that each uniquely solve problems that plague our broken education systems.
Ready to find out the top 3 solutions and see who won the coveted 1-1 with
@sama
?
Read on 👇
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opening up The Residency Bangalore's co-working space for around 5-10 people to co-work with us this Saturday.
great to get a taste of what working out from here is like and more importantly, what type of awesome people we attract :)
DM if you're interested in attending. HSR
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🚨 It’s time to build 🚨
This year The Residency is teaming up with Arcadia House to provide our founding cohort with an incredible environment to both grow as an individual 🌱 and to build the future 🚀
Read a few more of our tweets (X’s?) below to learn more 👇
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4 days until our global hacker house hackathon.
what are you going to build?
DM us to attend in one of our locations: san francisco, berkeley, cambridge, berlin and bangalore.
peek our new branding btw :)
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The Founding Cohort of The Residency begins its journey today 🚀
Here are our five heroes, the ones venturing off the traditional life path so that they can build something great with an ambitious community in the bay.
Read on to see what they are up to 👇
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ever want to lock-in and just build for 4 months?
the residents of Hacker's Life in Bangalore are doing exactly that this summer.
see what they are building in chapter 3, the future is looking bright 🥹🚀🧵
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it has been literally 9 days since our second cohort started and residents are already on it.
here's the first week of The Residency's second cohort, without context ;)
look below to see what else some of our legends are doing👇
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Welcome to The Residency 🚀
If you *don’t* want to take required lectures next year && you *do* want to build your own venture with the support of a community, let us know 👇
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Nothing's more fulfilling to us than seeing young people building 🛠️ and shipping 🚢.
Safe to say the
@_buildspace
final exam day and the IRL event last week brought a ton of energy our residents (and team) enjoyed!
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giving a last minute full-ride scholarship to a female applicant to our cohort. diversity is important to us!
apply if you haven't already and also shoot us a DM!
it's Feb 2024
we didn't have plans to expand to Bangalore. but
@hardeep_gambhir
saw a concentration of builders in India and thought why not
he flew from SF in May to expand there.
to this day, he can't decide which is better: SF or BLR
story of The Residency BLR🧵👇
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want to see what resulted from this tweet?
🤖🍂
join our final demo day on tuesday to find out
Instead of leaf blowers, I want a quiet little robot that picks leaves up one at a time and puts them in a bag, at night while I'm sleeping.
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~50% of our residents are in town. what are they going to build?
s/o to
@1517fund
for the ice cream social at dolores park. the perfect welcome event for our residents.
stayed tuned for more posts coming up soon 🫶✨
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interviews for sept 2024 start now — on the down low.
👇👇👇
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ever want to lock-in and just build for 4 months?
the residents of Hive are doing exactly that this summer.
see what they are building in chapter 3, the future is looking bright 🥹🚀🧵
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want to meet this guy?
final demos 1 week from today in SF
dm for event link
Can an AI Agent build an X clone within less than 10 mins of Waymo ride?
Yes!
Watch how Softgen, our new autonomous AI developer, does that! 🤖
More examples + code + links to apps in thread!
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hosting co-working and demos at shack 15 this thursday
DM if interested
andddd - dj set to follow demos 🕺💃
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thanks for
@sarthaks92
and
@pavithran_pc
for the roundtable discussion tackling every resident's specific problems in building their startups.
hearing from the angle of both a VC and a Founder gave great insights to our residents. we stay building and shipping in bangalore!
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Traditional university education is failing.
Young builders want to build, not attend outdated lectures with no real-world application.
Introducing The Residency, the first-ever residency program that pays you to build without dropping out. 👇
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after living in Arcadia,
@dominik_scherm
&
@thorgexyz
started Aurea, the sister house of Arcadia in Berlin
they were inspired by the immaculate vibes and the thoughtful people - they excelled at recreating it 🌱
this summer, Aurea adds 5 awesome residents to their community 👇
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We have received 150+ applications for our IRL college experience. 😌
Starting this August, builders will live, build, and vibe together in Berkeley, CA 🚀
We asked all of our applicants "what gets you excited about The Residency?"
Here's what they said👇
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It's time for a revolution 🔥🧵🔥
Thank you
@William_Blake
for so many wise words in your new book “Paper Belt on Fire”
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new residency ⚡️ 🚀
silicon valley is not the only place in the world it should be possible to live surrounded by ambitious people
today
@lifeoftheshat
and
@GuglielmoFonda
are announcing the residency in dubai!
@_arrayah
is a home for deep tech founders, check it out👇
𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘂𝗯𝗮𝗶
introducing
@_TheResidency
at
@_arrayah
a space for builders to bring their ideas to life
let us explain why we need this
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3 days until our cross-house hackathon.
this is a sign for you to stop overthinking.
make it happen.
DM us if you want an invite to a specific location
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on friday, we made a partiful for group paintball after seeing everyone grinding their products and not touching grass.
on sunday, we pulled up to the venue with 28 ppl. residents and friends of residents.
much grass was touched this day. now we’re back on the grind. ⚡️
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meet
@meichenster
,
currently building foldable homes () to mitigate this housing crisis. but she didn't start like this.
she was a part of our SF cohort starting January and is now a Community Architect for our cohort in Cambridge.
her story 🧵
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sf2 represent 🔥
1st place at runpod hackathon with a cracked team today. thanks to all the organizers.
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1 day till our hackathon.
are you going to wait for the future to be built or build it?
DM us asking for the link to the location you're interested in coming to.
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s/o to
@alexblania
for letting us stay over an extra hour to answer all of our questions about the journey from theoretical physicist to ceo of worldcoin, you're an inspiration 🚀
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BIG NEWS
For our first year, we are changing to 3 month cohorts ⏳ for 2% equity 💸
At the end of the 3 months, residents can re-apply for an additional 3 months.
Our rational for this change👇
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We have received over 35 submissions for The Design-a-thon.
But only 1 will win the grand prize including a 1-1 with
@sama
🏆
Before announcing the winners, we would like to introduce the judging panel.
A 🧵✨
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ATTENION
winners of the HORIZONS SF hackathon will get a free weekend stay at one of our hacker houses in SF, getting to live with some legends
ship something beautiful
link to apply below👇
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We've got a competition starting in *1 week*
Grand prize is a 30 min conversation with the one and only
@sama
🚀🧠
Stay tuned!!
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Berkeley is at the cutting edge 🧠 🧪
Shoutout to
@jajoosam
and
@SeyoneC
with
@BerkeleyML
for bringing in
@peytongreenside
from
@BigHatBio
for an awesome discussion on using ML to build antibodies
So much curiosity in one room 🔥
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In today's world, ambitious, high-potential individuals are funneled into a singular educational system:
- 📆 Commit 8 hours/day to school
- 📚 Follow a rigid curriculum
- 🧑🏫 Memorize facts just to pass standardized tests
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meet
@alexkoch_ai
- The Residency Chapter 2.
he is a Twitter Celebrity now known for his little robot arms that everyone talks about.
but it wasn't like this a few months ago when he arrived here.
here's his story 🧵
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together we empower builders 🫶
We're thrilled to announce our partnership with
@_TheResidency
, the home for ambitious builders!
We're excited to support select members of their future cohorts by writing the first checks to kick-start their startup journeys.
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sf2 is cooking
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overheard at The Residency
“this is the most intellectually stimulating environment I have ever been in”
🫶🚀
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from an alum:
"maybe it's not exactly an alternative for a college experience, which is a safe and comfortable bubble, but something you would never get in college: a real life taste of a highly ambitious, focused and meaningful life"
✅🥹
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We hosted a design-a-thon to surface novel solutions to problems that plague our education systems.
Before we announce the winners, here's a thread of all of the creative ideas competitors proposed that have the potential to transform our education systems.
A long 🧵
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The current approach is expensive and often fails to teach useful skills.
We
@Primer
,
@tksworldhq
,
@joinPrequel
,
@_TheResidency
,
@1517Fund
,
@vercisocial
,
@colossusfyi
@dropoutfund
and many others are all building alternative education pathways.
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some like to code. some like to build the future.
2 days until our first ever global cross-houses hackathon.
choose who you’re going to be this weekend.
DM us for the link to the location you’re interested.
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And that's a wrap ✅
So many great submissions outlining new solutions to the problems plaguing our education system.
If you created a thread for the design-a-thon, make sure to let us know here:
Winners will be announced next week!
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neeraj is one of our amazing community architects -- it's not just the residents that get the warmth and learnings from the experience :)
The worst thing you can do with your life is spend it with wrong people. Alone is great. However, with right people, you play the game of life on an another level.
People matter the most.
I did not live this fact until being at the
@_TheResidency
for last 3 months.
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The design-a-thon will have *3 winners*
-🥉 Place gets $500
-🥈 Place gets $750 + acceptance into The Residency's first cohort
-🥇 Place gets $1,000 + acceptance into The Residency first cohort + a 30 min convo with
@sama
🔥
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cambridge popping off 🔥
Gave a talk on e/acc, thermodynamic and quantum computing to folks from
@edchucation
@sundai_club
in front of Harvard library steps.
Felt very lindy.
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The competition starts today, March 1st, and ends on March 31st at noon PST.
🚀 To enter the design-a-thon 🚀
1. Quote retweet this thread saying why you are participating.
2. Register to compete -
3. Tweet your solution thread
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"do not think of education as a substitute for the future" -
@peterthiel
lets unpack that.
many people turn 18, go to college, and think thats it.
they'll take the classes, get the degree, and land the high paying job they'll love.
their future will just "work out" thanks
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Congratulations
@mathurahravi
for taking home bronze 🥉
👏👏👏
Mathu proposes using UN sustainable development goals, 2 months learning sprints, and bounties to help students, learn and earn while working on the world's most pressing problems.
i’ve been in school for the past 21 years and I’ve learned exactly nothing about how to build a better world, let alone thrive in a world where creativity and intellect are no longer the exclusive dominions of humans.
i propose a new way of learning, with students as creators.
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We have our final judge! 💪
@William_Blake
, the co-founder of
@1517fund
is joining us to judge your submissions.
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The purpose of our design-a-thon is:
1. To raise awareness on how we can better educate the world 🤓
2. To surface novel ideas that could dramatically change the world 🚀
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It doesn't end there!
- Students are not motivated to learn.
- They're depressed, anxious, and lonely.
- University researchers are required to both teach & research.
- Early career researchers struggle to get funding for their ideas.
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here's a guy from India putting his family ties on the line because he wanted to build. investors, we have someone for you.
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lastly, here is
@aidenybai
,
@nisargptel
and
@fiveseveny
building and shipping
@milliondotjs
till 6 am in the morning.
while we highly value sleep, sometimes you just gotta ship.
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⚖️ Your submissions are judged on ⚖️
1. Scalability
2. Implementation feasibility
3. Problem severity
4. Ingenuity of solution
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last time, we didn't have a 'hacker house' in BLR rather a hostel + co-working space setup.
this time, we've got our own 4.5 BHK house with a co-working space and a private chef.
apply if interested, we're still looking out for exceptional ppl.
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Pretty much getting the Berkeley college experience
…minus the debt and lectures 😁
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welcome the residents of Arcadia 🌱
Arcadia was created by
@isaakfreeman
as a home to bring together great minds that can envision a brighter future for us all 🧠🚀
this summer, the residents get to live in his creation, building some pretty neat things👇
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quick peek into the Dubai residency 🚀
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To win the design-a-thon:
You must submit a Twitter thread that outlines a solution to at least one problem that exists in today’s education system.
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where would you like to see us next?
vancouver
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toronto
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singapore
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austin
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note: we don't want to gate keep at all — there will be interviews after this "referral season" — the only reason we are doing this is bc we are a small team and we see this as the best way to use our time and your time effectively!
good luck and talk soon 🫡
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watch
@alexkoch42
from our cohort on the journey of becoming Doctor Octopus from Spiderman 2.
in all seriousness though, this is crazy. this is so much cheaper than a Tesla humanoid. yet, it can still do a vast number of stationary tasks.
like cleaning a room, putting
Finished building the first version of my low-cost teleoperation setup. It's less than $200 per robot arm.
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our 2nd cohort is expanding to include a house in SF!
we partnered with & coworking so residents can live & work together in the heart of tech
the 52 bedroom house is perfect for those ready to rapidly expand their network
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We now have our second judge for the design-o-thon!
@edchucation
will be joining us to review your submissions.
3 more days to go!
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we care about side projects. projects that aren’t for school/work.
this is where your personality shows. your values. the way you think about the world.
be it a personal website, a YT video, an AI app.
come, demo whatever and meet awesome builders <3
If you’re near Berkeley, come share what you’re working on at Berkeley Demo Day this Sunday!
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builder communities unite 🫡
Welcoming
@_TheResidency
batch into the community.
The next few weeks will be filled with ideating, building and iterating.
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in the midst of building and bonding - we’ve made it a point to bring awesome individuals to the house in a cozy setting to learn from them!
s/o to the time Gordon Rausser, a Berkeley Econ Professor and Nick Donahue, CEO of Atmos came to the house to have chats in a cozy
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imagine your new home: Arcadia House.
filled with whiteboards, cozy living rooms, and a motivating co-working space,
@isaakfreeman
has put his heart into building this sanctuary that values agency, ambition, thoughtfulness, and kindness.
Arcadia:
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Our judges are having an amazing time going through all of the design-a-thon submissions, y’all are very creative and articulate 🥷
Thank you to everyone who participated and helped us get the word out 🫶
Stay tuned in this week for the announcement of the winners 🔥🔥🔥
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🎉 Congratulations
@jesse_gabel
for brining home the gold 🥇
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Jesse blew away the judges describing his vision for the future of education.
His submission is very thoughtful, practical, and encompassing, definitely check it out!
Our education system has torn me up since I started to think consciously about it. I wasn't able to reconcile with existing solutions: .
Five months ago, I began conceiving solutions to the problems of our education systems. Here's my vision:
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early application deadline TONIGHT
spots will still be open for people who apply later, chances are just better to get in if you apply now
last cohort had a 5.6% acceptance rate 👀
🎉 WINTER BREAK SURPRISE 🎉
APPLICATIONS LIVE TODAY
for our third cohort
starting may 2024
for anyone who wants to build rather than sit in lectures, this is for you 🫵 🧵
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🚨 Problems with education 🚨
- It's expensive.
- It’s not personalized.
- 1-1 tutoring isn’t scalable.
- Not career-oriented.
- Students struggle to retain and transfer knowledge to new domains.
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We are excited about solutions to the problems mentioned in the following tweets.
But this is not an exhaustive list and competitors are encouraged to solve the problem(s) they care most about.
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Degrees say something about one's ability to play inside the box.
They say little about one's ability to create value in the world.
Prioritize portfolios over degrees.
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