bali.
21 days · 16 founders · 01 villa.
why bali
we wanted a room with no city in it.
bengaluru taught us how to build. bali is where we ship at altitude — sixteen founders, one villa cut into a hillside, three weeks far enough from your inbox to actually hear yourself think. you arrive a founder. you leave with something only this room could have made.
the villa
three floors cut into a hillside. a pool the colour of bottle glass. sixteen rooms, one long table, the jungle louder than your slack.
ubud · bali · the villa
01 / 11
02 / 11the pool
03 / 11afternoons
04 / 11breakfast, floating
05 / 11where you sleep
06 / 11the long room
07 / 11green tile
08 / 11the kitchen
09 / 11long table
10 / 11after dinner
11 / 11the corner roomdrag to walk through →
the shape · 21 days
three weeks.
01
the arrival.
week one · you land in denpasar, drive into ubud by sundown. the long table fills. you meet the fifteen founders you'll spend the next twenty days losing sleep with.
02
the build.
week two · no demo, no decks, no schedule. sixteen founders deep in their thing. mentors fly in. yc partners read your work over breakfast. you break for the pool, the kitchen, the long talks at 2am.
03
the depart.
week three · what shipped, ships. last day, the room you built shows itself — to each other, to the people who came to see. then the world gets back what you took with you. sharper.
the room, in plain
when
aug 24 → sep 13, 2026 · 21 days, end to end
where
ubud, bali · the villa above the ravine
who
16 founders · invitation, not first-come
what
no programme. one villa. demo day at the end.
bring
the thing you can't stop building.
cost
covered by forge. you bring yourself.
applications open · 16 seats
apply.
tell us who you are and what you'd build if a villa above a ravine was the only room you had for three weeks. adi reads every one.
see you in august