We Create Founding Engineers

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.  — Richard Feynman

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because it pleases him, and it pleases him because it is beautiful. Were nature not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, life would not be worth living. — Henri Poincaré

Culture is important in any organization, but at YC culture wasn't just how we behaved when we built the product. At YC, the culture was the product. — Paul Graham

What is Fractal Labs?

Fractal Labs is an ecosystem of projects which, ultimately, organize a Tech Renaissance in NYC.

Right now that means building a talent pipeline. Specifically, we:

• Teach ambitious people how to code, via Fractal Bootcamp
• Host events dedicated to technologists
• Match founders with talent
• Build spaces for co-working among values-aligned technologists

We define technologists as:

1. People who must create, whether paid or not
2. People whose creations are likely to be highly interesting or important

Alan Kay thinks these are the people who move history forward.*

*this definition of technologist comes from Alan Kay’s The Power of The Context

Why start with a bootcamp?