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Who stays up all night building? We might have your first check here. July 24th, we're hosting Night Hack III. - 50 founders IRL, 5hrs, invite only - build and ship ANYTHING, while your competition sleeps - we’ll give you credits, food, and same day decisions This is for those who build because they can't wait. Contender applications now open FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS: https:// luma.com/nighthack Let us know if you nominate anyone to participate.

He grew up riding gas dirt bikes. Now he's a founder selling his own vehicles, but electric: Full size, battery hot swappable, riding around today.

He built a factory you can fit in your home. Introducing MicroFactory. Another industrial revolution is upon us:

We want to back the next $1B student founder. Not from a pitch or LinkedIn, but IRL. So we’re throwing the hackathon of the summer. You’ll have 5 hours to ship something. You’ll get credits, food, prizes, and maybe a first check. If you’re in, let me know what you’d build.

Two years ago, Victor Boyd and Mohammad Nafisi bought a used forklift and a shed. The plan: make it drive itself. It's now built to move everything everywhere. Here's their story:

Launching something small next week in SF: The 5-10 Club. A private nightly hack session at our campus for founders, engineers, and builders actively working on something. Capping @ 50 members. Everyday IRL 5-10PM. Fort Mason. 200+ founders are already building here full-time. Bring a laptop. Bring something real. Comment what you’re building and we’ll see if you'd be a good fit.

Come build with us this summer. You have exactly 8 hours left to drop out of the standard pipeline. Applications for Off Season II close tonight. The plan is simple: • A desk at our San Francisco campus (HW lab, chef lunches, gym...) • Closed-door talks with $1B founders & lectures • $50k in credits, up to $250k first checks to top teams Your move. f.inc/offseason

You just finished your last exam. You walked out of the room satisfied with the work you put in, & excited for a summer filled with everything you love. The world cup is happening, a new Avengers movie is coming out, the Knicks are in the finals, life is good. You'll return to school in the fall, only a few semesters left before you're gone. Actually, everything's on track. You're probably starting to see your future more clearly then you ever have. Is it what you want? I hope so. If the answer was yes, stop reading here. Good luck If the answer was no, I'd like you reframe how you view your summer break. We often see our vacations as a period to reset, recoup. Give yourself the energy you need to come back to same the work. But that's not what this should be for: This is a photo of Victor Wembanyama. He's arguably the best basketball player in the world, but last year his team was bottom 3 in the league. No one had any expectations coming into this season. Except for him. Over the summer this photo was captured, it's Wemby training with Shaolin Monks in Henan, China. When asked why he spent 3 weeks training like a monk? "To put my body through things its not used to doing" Last week, his team made the NBA finals. Is it because he shaved his head in a Shaolin Temple? Probably not. But without a doubt, it reframed the upcoming season for him. It was no longer about recovering from a bad season, it was about building on this new base. & We think this is how you should spend your summer too. You have a clear opening with no expectations. Treat it like 10 weeks to test yourself. Maybe there's a completely different career you've never thought of trying. Maybe you have a business idea you're putting off until after college. Maybe it's a movie stuck in your head that you want to share with the world. You have 10 weeks to validate your theory. Are you capable of doing it now? Is this something you really want to pursue? Don't create limits or expectations on how it should go. Just put yourself into wildly different conditions then you're used to. & experiment with obsession, so that by the end of the summer you've gained something. Whether its knowledge, experience, or a reason to drop out lol The outcomes you have will be determined by the inputs you put in. So yeah, don't waste this summer.

We’re looking to invest $3M in ambitious student founders by the end of summer. If you're building, tell us & we'll invite you to our SF campus. - 6 weeks to lock in at the heart of San Francisco - Office Hrs with out team - Up to $250k in funding on demo day Spots limited to 100 teams. Apply in our bio.

@ Hardware Engineers If you're spending the summer building at home in a garage We're inviting you to build here instead: We have 20,000 sq/ft of hardware equipment across our campus CNC, 3D printers, resin printers, soldering stations, mills, everything you need We're running a 6 week program for founders starting Jun 24th Your prototyping can move 10x faster if you build alongside other ambitious engineers. Apply at f.inc/offseason