days in Austin
companies, picked by hand
mentors. One coffee, office hours, or dinner each
demo day, October 22
The 2016 playbook meets a better city
Eight companies. One cohort. Two became Lambda and Luminar.
It was not curriculum. It was density. The right people, one room, a clock, and real stakes.
The hard tech wave is landing in Central Texas.
Thousands of engineers who now know how factories get built, one vesting cliff away from founding. Nobody has built the room where they become founders. This is the room.
Maxxing is a schedule
Same rhythm, every day. Mornings belong to the build, and nothing is ever scheduled against them.
Together, before sunrise.
One mentor. No slides.
Sacred. Six uninterrupted hours.
One investor a day, on site.
One operator or founder, family style.
Nine live demos, as race week begins
Nine live demos in front of a room of capital that already met the founders at office hours. Then two hours where the conversations become term sheets, and F1 weekend takes it from there.