Nantte Kivinen

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

Environment is everything.

The Royal Society, the Medici workshops, Bell Labs.

How to have significance at the scale of these institutions.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech.

Welcome to FR8.

Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe.

They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab.

Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action.

Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings.

They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for.

We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki.

We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future.

The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@maxleedev @ErnestiSario @shipfr8 🫶🫶

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

Truly an absurd feeling, raising your own flag.

Dream bigger

[FR8 @shipfr8]

We took over a former technical university.

This is Hogwarts in real life.

For people who want to work on something too early, too weird, too ambitious.

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@shipfr8 Hoist the pirate flag 🏴‍☠️

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

The team at Tendrils reminds me daily that elegance still exists, and standards are something we want to stand for

Truly a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with some of the most humble and capable teams I've ever interacted with.

[Nils Cremer @nilscmr]

CPUs suck. We're building a new general-purpose chip that scales to thousands of cores while being more energy-efficient.

We're hiring hardware design engineers, consider joining us https://t.co/8GCN0bN0xN

What we do differently ...

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@nilscmr the goat

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@ahtavarasm_us love it

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@arnie_hacker @pham_blnh If you can match 1X Neo (20k) we have a deal

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@SarkaryShahvir @tbpn 🔥🔥

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@SarkaryShahvir 🫶🫶

[Shahvir Sarkary @SarkaryShahvir]

Introducing LeLamp.

An emotional and expressive robot to reshape our attachment to technology.

Pre-orders open now (link below).

[FR8 @shipfr8]

COHORT 2.s JUST LAUNCHED, AND WE WENT FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE, again.

FR8 is for founders, nerds, and scientists working at the frontier, people chasing something impossible and ready to dedicate their whole life to it.

If you want to build the next app and exit early, apply elsewhere.
If you want to go all in something that actually pushes humanity forward, you��ve found your home.

Applications are now open.

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@shipfr8 Never stop the madness

[Ernesti Sario @ErnestiSario]

FR8 is coming to London.

​We're bringing together people who feel out of place in a world that values conformity over curiosity and agency.

The event is meant for young technical founders and researchers who are going (or looking to go) all in on crazy ideas.

Sign up: https://t.co/lcjGnbjkWM

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@elliotarledge life

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@elliotarledge 😨

[Nantte Kivinen @nantte]

@ErnestiSario @elliotarledge let him cook