A smiling founder in conversation with other attendees at a speedrun event

Residency

Who you build next to matters. Every speedrun company spends twelve weeks in person at our office in San Francisco. Work next to the speedrun team, learn from the founders and operators behind some of the most important companies of our time, and build alongside a hand-picked group of peers.

The office

Everything you need to build, under one roof

Twelve weeks of content and community, plus six months of office access.

The space
Desks for deep work, rooms for the sessions, and space for dinners and demos.
The team
Operators across capital, customers, and talent, working alongside you.
The week
Firesides, practitioner sessions, office hours, and events, built around what you’re working on.
Founders and visitors having lunch in front of the SR logo on the speedrun floor

Speakers and mentors

In the room with people who have done it

Fireside chats and roundtables, in small rooms.

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  • Walden Yan

    Walden Yan

    Cognition

  • Sam Altman

    Sam Altman

    OpenAI

  • Jesse Zhang

    Jesse Zhang

    Decagon

  • Sam Blond

    Sam Blond

    Monaco

Community

A tight-knit group inside a big network

Year-round events, founders who stay involved, and a community that spans the globe.

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  • Founders talking at an outdoor speedrun mixer under string lights

    Panels, dinners, and mixers

    A regular rhythm of events with the same group of founders, so you get to know each other over the residency.

  • A speaker sharing her experience at a speedrun event

    Speakers, advisors, first customers

    speedrun founders stay involved after their own residency, as speakers at sessions, advisors to new companies, and customers for what those companies build.

  • A group of founders posing together at a speedrun gathering

    From everywhere, building here

    Founders who moved to build in America, and the peer group that helps the next ones do it. Visas, banking, housing guidance, and people who made the same move.

“The speedrun founder community is amazing. I’ve been building consumer products for over a decade at ByteDance and Google, and have never seen such a high concentration of talent and high-retention products. The founder journey can be lonely, but having a support network of other high-caliber founders is so invaluable.”

Lucky Zhang

Lucky Zhang

Founder and CEO, Sekai