Manifesto

Andy Grove escapes Hungary in '56, arrives in Santa Clara, and helps turn Intel into the engine of the PC era.

Two teenagers from Ireland, Patrick and John Collison, land in San Francisco. They hack a better way to move money online. Stripe becomes the internet's (and OpenAI's) payment layer.

Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Żukowski reimagine the data warehouse in San Mateo. Snowflake IPOs in 2020 and changes how data teams work.

Jawed Karim leaves Germany, lands in the PayPal pit in San Bruno, and co-founds YouTube. One clip at the zoo, then the way the world watches everything.

Jan Koum emigrates from Ukraine to Mountain View. He starts by cleaning grocery store floors. A big hustle later, he ships WhatsApp and rewrites how two billion people talk: ad-free, simple, worldwide.

Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Ali Ghodsi, a Berkeley lab team from Romania and Sweden, spin out Databricks. Spark graduates from paper to platform.

Wojciech Zaremba leaves Poland, arrives in San Francisco, and helps found OpenAI. And the rest is history.

Europe is a talent hub, but San Francisco is still the best place in the world to build a huge company.

That's where we come in. We run an 8-week residency in the Bay Area where you live, ideate, and build alongside other Europeans.

We're here to remove the wall, so that your ability is all that matters.