TekTrek brings fifty of the strongest student builders from MIT, Harvard, and Princeton into a single cohort in San Francisco for the summer. The name is the model: a round trip that starts in Cambridge, runs west for a season of creation, and returns east with a real company, a real team, and a network that spans both coasts. Acceleration, not extraction.
The premise is that a small, sharp team now carries the leverage that once took an organization fifty times its size, so the cohort spends 80% of its time building, not touring. Each team is matched to the mentors, founders, and operators working in its own domain, with introductions curated team by team rather than at scale. The summer is punctuated by visits across the Bay's frontier labs, archives, and the places that shaped the companies they're trying to build.
Project Lead: John Werner