The Golden Age of Residencies

In Summer 2024, we hosted the first residential summer founders program at Harvard since the original Y Combinator 19 years ago. From over 600 applicants sourced from livetheresidency.org, we selected and then hosted 16 founders:

Houses Summer 2024:

1. C House: 10 founders
1. C++ house: 5
2. E House: 8
3. The White House: 5 founders

Friend Houses:

1. Harvard at NYC House with Johnny + Brent
2. MIT Entrepreneurship Club SF House with Ricky
3. A House with Isaak, Anshul, and James
4. Wearable AI Residency by The Augmentation Lab

Having a support network is critical:

• Selective themed funded and insured residencies
• Multiple houses with 4-5 teams of 6-10 people total
• 1+ organizer, industry mentor, faculty adviser, legal counsel, and investor per house
• Each person controls their room, time, and experiences

Timeline thus far:

2026: largest university hacker house network?

Who we get to work with:

• Immigrant student researcher serial entrepreneurs
• Half of America’s billion-dollar startups were founded by immigrants
• Prolific researchers (without kids) that swear in class
• “PhDs that could win a barfight”
• Anyone you would go to war with
• or who could break you out of a prison

“Don’t be self conscious about being an entrepreneur. Be the person that others hope you are” - Pandora founder Tim Westergren

Why here?

1. We start early by supporting students before they drop, move, or graduate out
2. We are derisked by Harvard investing billions into AI and Allston
3. We are connecting Harvard with MIT, Boston, SF, and the rest of the world

“NY is a network. Boston is a community.” - Sarah Hodges from Pillar

House Friends:

1. Atmosphere SF
2. Fractal NYC
3. Arcadia Berkeley
4. Andromeda Berkeley
5. Green House SF
6. AGI House Cambridge
7. LxM MIT → SF
8. Founder’s Cupid UMich
9. Design Buddies

“Vibes are the moat” - Jack Jay from Persist Ventures

Fund Friends

1. HF0
2. ZF
3. EF

"The average investor relationship lasts longer than a marriage"

Incubators I’ve been affiliated with:

1. YC
2. Columbia-Harvard Summer Accelerator
3. Harvard Innovation Labs
4. MIT Innovation Initiative
5. A16Z CSS

“Build something people want” - YC

Things we’re interested in now:

1. AGI
1. Doing what was impossible with AI
2. Anything that feels like magic
2. Democratization
1. Abstracting the American Dream
2. Make good healthcare, housing, education, and admin more accessible
3. Patriotism
1. Reduce risk from recessions, pandemics, hacks, and AI
2. Protecting democracy and democracies

“We’re at the end of history. The world as we know it is ending. What will you do?”

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