"Last year, I moved to San Francisco to cofound an AI startup. Living in a hacker house seemed like the best way to make as many connections as possible. My cofounder and I had an idea for a no-code AI workflow builder and planned to stay in San Francisco for three months, but we decided that running our own hacker house could be more fun. It would also help us build a strong network."
"We found our first hacker house on Airbnb I met my cofounder in 2023 because we were both working at Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Those projects fizzled out, and we went on to do other things. I moved from my hometown of Pittsburgh, and he was in Dallas. San Francisco was always a place I wanted to live because it seemed like the kind of place where people who thought like me were."
"We planned to share a bunk bed in one room, and fill the rest with people we found, possibly securing free rent for ourselves in the process. We looked on Airbnb and found a place that had been converted from a five-bedroom house to a 15-bedroom house. After speaking with the owners, it seemed like it would work. They said we had two weeks to close on it if we wanted a master lease for all the units."
Pat Santiago relocated from Pittsburgh to San Francisco to cofound an AI startup and initially planned a three-month stay. He and his cofounder decided to run a hacker house to accelerate networking and to make the experience more enjoyable. They found a 15-bedroom unit on Airbnb, secured a short timeframe to close a master lease, and recruited residents through LinkedIn. Meeting originally in 2023 while working on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, they navigated operational stress from hosting and managing multiple residents. Emphasis on real-world connections and physical community-building became central to their approach and early success.
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