on 8pm on wednesday oct 22: zach and i took our math137 midterm (i lowkey failed).

we stayed in oakville for the night and woke up nice and early to head to yyz.

we bumped into remy (head of growth @ typeos) at the airport so we tagged along with him.

landed in sf, 12pm, thursday oct 23:

we immediately got picked up by daniel martinez and musa aqeel from vibegrade(yc) / typeos and visited their office @ the landing in dogpatch.

then we visited visited dris & ben @ instinct, they cooking up a launch vid and kicked us out 😂. theres hella founders in dogpatch area for some reason.

then we took a quick ride to the spermrace hq, met the team including nick & rishi who invited us for dinner.

we then visited shane, alex & jay (founders @ polarity) at their place and talked tech. the view was hella nice and lira & adam from vectus ai invited us to stay the night. i rode waymo for the first time 🔥.

sf at night is beautiful

friday oct 24:

we met up with cole and elliot from locus (yc f25).

we then went to calhacks to check it out.

side story: our uber driver was an unc of japanese origin who was born & raised in brazil + went to college in sf area. we shared an interesting convo abt life, a reminder to talk with your uber drivers!

held at the palace of fine arts, the venue itself was aesthetic, however the bottleneck was that this wasn't a location meant to host this many people coding — the wifi couldn't handle it.

we then decided to take a side quest to the browserbase hq for a canadian founder meetup hosted by toki and tyler. met cool people there, had many inspirational conversations.

we went back to calhacks, but zach and i decided that adventure > hacking and we dipped. (but first we helped hand out celcius & typeos condoms). but where would we leave to? we had to make a spontaneous decision on the fly.

founders inc was nearby. we decided to walk there and hopefully crash 🙏.

we saw a sidedoor open by a sliver and went inside.

some ppl saw us and raised the obvious quesion "yo who tf are these kids and why are yall here".

we pitched our hackathon idea and they let us crash for the night. the office was hella chill. we met tom and he instantly credited our ballsiness. we had a great convo with him and he gave us tons of valuable expertise.

tbh we truly were crazy though. this experience taught me the ppl in sf all got that "f*** it" mentality. its been embedded into the environment. our night would've been totally different if we weren't like "yo lets do something crazy" and if the founders weren't like "yo these kids are weird af, but we'll let them in".

saturday oct 25:

we mostly just chilled at adam's place.

i also explored the hilly neighbourhoods (free leg day) & we doordashed panda express and popeyes, fully experienced the founder life.

sunday oct 26:

we went to an yc afterparty, mostly just chilled.

then we attended the typeos launch party back @ the landing, where we started 4 days ago then rushed to the airport.

monday oct 27:

landed and i took my cs135 midterm later that day (went way better than math137 even though i crammed content in 8 hours)

moral of the story: go to sf.

my outlook on life was changed completely by the environment. be spontaneous, explore, sneak into founders inc, crash at founders' places, wake up with a mentality to take risks.

can't wait to return after improving on myself 🫡