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Founder housing in San Francisco
Hacker houses, founder residencies, accelerator cohorts and the market for furnished month-to-month housing in San Francisco — reported from the inside by the team that runs the homes.
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Inside San Francisco's Hacker Houses: The 2026 Map
Who lives where, what they pay, and why the AI boom moved startup life out of the garage and into thirteen-bedroom mansions.
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Why Stanford's Mayfield Fellows Came Back: A Cohort Housing Case Study
Two consecutive summers, two houses, one cohort of Stanford's most selective entrepreneurship fellowship — and the second booking was the whole building.
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From Bunk Beds to Temples: The Luxury Turn in Founder Houses
Cold plunges, private chefs, meditation rooms and $140 sheets. The new founder houses are not nicer versions of the old ones — they are built on a different theory of what makes people productive.
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The Receipts: What Came Out of the Houses Where Founders Live Together
Lovable at a reported $13.3 billion. Mercor in talks at $20 billion. A Nature paper on why distance kills breakthrough ideas. The case for co-location, with the numbers attached.
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Where Accelerator Founders Actually Live: Housing a Batch in San Francisco
Y Combinator requires founders in San Francisco for the whole batch, four times a year. Here is what that costs, what the options are, and why the 12-month lease is the wrong instrument.
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The House as the New Campus: Founders Who Skipped College
Three friends left Harvard and Georgetown in 2023 and built a company reported in talks at $20 billion. A growing number of eighteen-year-olds are choosing a house in San Francisco over a dorm — and getting a different education.
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The Empty Nine Months: How Month-to-Month Housing Puts Supply Back Into San Francisco
A company that needs three months of housing and signs a twelve-month lease takes a home off the market for a year and uses it for a quarter. The arithmetic of that waste is the argument for furnished month-to-month housing — and the critics deserve an answer too.
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Who Gets In: Founder Houses, Diversity of Thought and Social Mobility
Immigrants founded 59% of America's billion-dollar private companies. The mechanism that produces that number is not a visa policy — it is a room where people from different places argue about the same problem.
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One to Six Months in San Francisco: Every Housing Option, Compared
Hotels, aparthotels, sublets, unfurnished leases, co-living and managed founder homes. What each one actually costs for a three-month stay, and which problem each one fails at.
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