JUST BUILD IT — Manifesto.
We are the descendants of humans who tamed fire.
Who domesticated wild animals. Who eradicated diseases that killed millions. Who survived economic collapses and kept going. Who looked at an infinite universe and said: we want to understand this.
And with it comes a belief. That the world you leave behind will be better than the one you were born into.
It starts with an idea. A problem. An obsession.
Something that keeps you up at night. Something that makes you angry, or curious, or both. Something that, when you close your eyes, you can already see solved.
Create value for the people around you. Use technology to play positive-sum games. Make the pie bigger.
Don't extract. Contribute.
This community honours a specific kind of person.
Curious. Relentless. Delusionally optimistic.
They don't wait for permission. They don't complain about what's broken, they fix it. They do what needs to be done, whether or not anyone asked them to.
The kind who just starts before they're ready, before anyone believes in them.
And when they hit a wall?
They just build it.
If you are a builder in Paris, you can't miss this.
A demo night for builders, founders, researchers. Whoever has a live project they are working on.
Pitch & get feedback from other builders.
We are partnering with @doctolib to make this happen.
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The PSG celebrations in Paris went berserk this weekend. Vandalism. Racism flooding the timeline. Property destroyed for nothing.
What does it mean to be a rebel? There are two kinds.
One destroys. Terrorism, vandalism, burning the city you live in. It recruits people with no jobs, no purpose, no accountability, and gives them a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves.
That's not rebellion. That's just nihilism.
The other kind builds.
I was the laughingstock at school. My parents pushed me hard. Sometimes toxically. But I'm grateful for the competitiveness it bred in me.
When friends mocked me, I told myself: "Fuck you. Watch this."
And then people rebel against something external. Fighting the bad guys. In fact, you are someone's bad guy. Zero Sum Games.
The rebellion is internal. Against myself.
We all carry creative and destructive parts. If you want to do anything great, you have to OUTRUN yourself.
Two forms I love:
1. Entrepreneurship. Ideas not everyone believes in yet.
2. Athletics. The rawest form. Every morning my body wants to stay in bed. I run anyway. I lift anyway. I feel my body rebelling against me.
Rebelling against being an NPC.
1. One accepts the default. Never questions anything.
2. The other destroys the status quo by burning cars and trashing streets after a football match.
Both are NPCs. Neither is rebellion.
Real rebels question the status quo by asking: why is it done this way? Is there a better way that actually helps people? Then they go build it. Quietly. Without complaining.
Why are people destroying public property?
Because they're soaked in negative news. Because victimhood is easy. Because nobody teaches accountability anymore.
Weak leadership creates berserk citizens.
The fix is simple. Incentivize people to create. Reward those who question the status quo and build something better. Give them feedback. Give them stages. Give them communities.
That's why entrepreneurship is the highest form of rebellion. At Just Build It, the founder community I run in Paris, we have one rule: don't complain.
No resources? So fucking what. Do with what you have. Show the world how it's done.