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The Inspiration
BuildBnB is heavily inspired by John Wick… hear me out. Growing up, John Wick was the best film I had ever seen because of one concept that I couldn't stop thinking about. The director had designed an entire self-sustaining secret society built just for assassins, invisible and woven into everyday life. As a teenager, this was SO COOL!! Like assassins had their own currency. Their own hotels. Their own governance. Their own infrastructure. The moment you were initiated, doors opened, tools were waiting, and trust was already established … simply because you were part of that community. I wanted to build that for builders. Founders, developers, designers, researchers, and creators are (in my eyes) the real modern assassins of our generation. “Killers” of real-world problems. Specialists in human-centered design. We are a community full of young people relentlessly building solutions the world actually needs. I believe the startup community deserves its own infrastructure. So I chose to build it, and housing is where I’ve started.
The Problem
I also lived the problem myself. I'm a tech founder who travels hella often. Hackathons in China, San Francisco, Cambridge, and London, trips to raise capital and meet cofounders, and user research in different countries. Every single city I landed in already had a thriving startup community I desperately wanted to plug into, though I was stuck paying $350 a night at a hotel because I had no idea there was a hacker house nearby that would have easily welcomed me as another founder for my short-term stay. I had one connection changed everything. A classmate running a hacker house near Harvard University let me stay for 7 days, and that single introduction unlocked an entire international network of builder houses. Trust and access, simply because I was now in the circle. I paid pennies on the dollar compared to Marriott or Airbnb prices in the big city. I stayed a week in Cambridge, then went straight to a different hacker house in San Francisco (now, instead of a resort). I would choose a founder house instead of a solo expensive hotel room ten times over. BuildBnB is my answer… the Continental for builders. :)