Verci

Today, we're launching Season 0 of our membership. Our mission is to unite and nurture the next generation of DaVincis through building Libraries of the Future in every city. What are libraries of the future? How can we empower the misfits of our generation?👇

@amiyoshimura_ wow

we're building the hub for early stage consumer & ai teams we just opened a new floor @vercinyc (and soon yet another), expanding to ~20k square ft of total space looking for two more early stage teams to join us apply below

walked past someone's screen today and genuinely could not believe what they're building if you guess right, I'll wire you $100. (hint: it involves art + software)

verci started as a DAO for college dropouts. web3 was everywhere. we thought decentralization was the answer to everything. it kind of worked. we had hundreds of people. tons of energy but something felt hollow. you'd have these incredible moments in discord and then just nothing. no friction. no follow through. nobody actually knew each other. we realized community needs a physical home. so we found a space in soho. moved everyone in. watched what happened. companies got funded. cofounders met at 2am. artists sold their first pieces to people they met in the kitchen at 11pm on a tuesday. then the space literally fell apart. elevators. plumbing. everything breaking at once. we had a choice. we found a 3 story building in flatiron and signed the lease before we probably should have.

most people building consumer apps have no idea what resources are actually available to them comment "consumer" and i'll send you the full breakdown

some of the best companies i know about i can't talk about yet, just know that they are in Verci

my boss called me saturday morning. i panicked. it was 9am. he just wanted to tell me that someone who joined verci six months ago closed their series A. he didn't have to call me. i'm the intern. i barely knew this person. but he was so genuinely happy about it and the way he talked about it wasn't like great for the brand or good for the space. it was like hearing that someone he actually loved just got something they'd been working toward for years. we talked for fifteen minutes about his story. where he started. what he was building when he first walked in. how uncertain everything felt at the beginning. i hung up and just sat there for a second. i think that's the thing about this place that you can't understand from the outside until you're in it.

navigating NYC when you first arrive is genuinely hard if you don't know where to look comment "NYC" and i'll make a groupchat with everyone also navigating NYC

nudge people towards their dreams. if someone timidly mentions something big throw everything you have at it. ask them to say more.

finding a cofounder is one of the hardest parts of starting something comment "cofounder" and i'll send you everything that actually works

the best thing you can do for the world and for yourself is believe in your friends who are ambitious to the point of delusion

i dropped out exactly 4 years ago. when people ask if they should too, i tell them no. and they always look at me confused. like isn't that hypocritical. but here's the thing. i didn't drop out because i hated school. i dropped out because i had something so specific i needed to build that waiting felt physically painful. most people asking me if they should drop out are trying to escape something. a major they hate. a path that doesn't feel like theirs. pressure from people around them. that's not a reason to drop out. that's a reason to figure out what you actually want first. dropping out only works when you're running toward something. not away from something. if you don't know what that thing is yet, stay. it'll find you. and when it does you'll know because waiting will feel impossible.

most people trying to raise their first check have no idea where to actually start comment "raise" and i'll send you the full breakdown

our combined ARR across verci members is larger than some VC funds and we don't take equity

someone at verci just hired her first engineer. they'd been working 10 feet apart for two months. never spoke until she saw his screen one friday. said "wait are you building what i think you're building?" he said yes. she said i want in. that was three weeks ago. they're both full time now. and the wild thing is they'd been solving adjacent problems the whole time without knowing it. if she'd been working from home that conversation never happens. i keep thinking about all the versions of that story that don't exist because people are alone in their apartments.

finding a sublet in a new city is one of the most annoying things about moving somewhere new comment "sublet" and i'll send you everything that actually works

most people don’t fail from lack of talent. they fail from lack of proximity to people building at a high level.

@DeanBuilds22 @theresidency @zfellows @fdotinc @ycombinator exactly, just take an extra leap to change your life

@vercinyc @theresidency @zfellows @fdotinc @ycombinator The best part of this list is that most of these are free or near free. The bar to start is mostly just showing you're serious about building something real.

if you're a student founder trying to break into the startup ecosystem, start here: • @theresidency → hands-on cofounding + demo environments • @zfellows → community of top young builders • @fdotinc → hands-on sprint programs in SF • @ycombinator Startup School → free + elite curriculum • @vercinyc → creative + tech collective in NYC most people don’t lack ability, they lack access. comment “resources” for a more in depth list of resources

@nazzari @theresidency @zfellows @fdotinc @ycombinator @speedrun Of course 🤝

@vercinyc @theresidency @zfellows @fdotinc @ycombinator ++ @speedrun