Praxis

Praxis: build a startup city by curating the cool-kids network first

Shaan put $25K into Praxis (backed by Balaji), which first built a Soho-House-style network of cool founders and creatives via parties, then plans to negotiate sovereign land in the Mediterranean - their own law and regulation - and run it as a real-estate company renting to that community.

“this guy's premise is basically like, if you're going to build a new city, you need to have a network effect of dope people who want to be around each other. And so he's been curating this community for a while. And then they're going to the Mediterranean and they're going to these countries like, hey, Croatia, can we get a piece of land that's ours?”

Steal thisBootstrap a new ecosystem by curating the network of people first - the network effect is the real asset.