A whole camp
just outside of New York.
Cabins in the woods, a select group of founders, and three meals a day in one hall. Two and a half hours north of Manhattan, ours alone for the sixteen-day stay. The only real difference from the camp you remember is what you leave with.
The location is doing more than it looks like it is.
Every accelerator that runs in a city loses to the city. People go home, take the meeting, keep the contract, sleep in their own bed and arrive with half a head. The programme becomes a calendar invite.
Put a select group of founders somewhere with one road in and the arithmetic changes. The only people to talk to at eleven at night are the other founders, and every one of them is two days ahead of you on something and two days behind on something else.
That is what being just outside of New York is for. Not the view, though the view helps at 6am on the morning the deploy finally goes green.
- Getting there
- Two and a half hours north of Manhattan. You make your own way to New York. From there, Stan covers the coaches to camp on check-in morning and back to the city at the end.
- Sleeping and eating
- Cabins on site, with sleeping arrangements determined before arrival. Depending on travel logistics, you may be asked to book a nearby hotel for the night before camp begins. All meals and snacks are provided, and nobody eats at a desk alone. We’re in it together.
- Building
- One large build hall, a scatter of smaller rooms for calls, and proper fibre at every desk. A camp in setting only.
- Phones
- Every camera in the place is one more angle on your story, and the founders who film the most of it are the ones people follow out.
Sunday, October 4 to Monday, October 19.
Get yourself to New York. Stan covers the coaches from Manhattan on the morning of check-in and back at the end. Bring a laptop, two weeks of clothes, and whatever you were already going to build.
