Project summary

Arcadia is a new & growing community in the Bay. Our core house, a 14-bedroom in Berkeley, launched in September 2022.

We are a small group of entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and autodidacts passionate about improving the future of humanity.

We believe that a lot of serendipity comes from intermingling different life paths and different life stages. So, we’re looking for the house to roughly be:

• a third researchers/professors/PhD candidates,

• a third founders/entrepreneurs, and

• a third students/autodidacts.

All these groups tend to share a dedication to their personal work and mission — Arcadia is not a very loud & socially intense house, but rather a quiet, focused place with passion & relentlessness in the air.

Arcadia functions as a serene island between starkly different places and communities: Our Arcadians come from Emergent Ventures, Oxford Neurosciences, SpaceX, YCombinator, biotech academia, B2C software companies, Progress Studies, and more.

How will this funding be used?

Broadly, we’re interested in using funds donated here toward improving the physical house in Berkeley, and the community built up around it. To give you a taste of the sorts of things we might use marginal funding for:

• community dinners, events, hackathons, etc

• software (e.g. Notion for guides & documentation, outreach for events, etc)

• new furniture (e.g. setting up the roof, expanding the coworking space)

• tools for the makerspace

• more (text)books in the library

• producing and procuring art on the walls

• etc!

It’s important to us that we retain the flexibility to use these funds to improve the house how we think it could best be improved — although we welcome your input, if you decide to give to our project, we expect that you’re giving unrestrictedly. See Paul Graham’s essay on unrestricted donation for more on our philosophy here :)