Ashlee Vance tours Frontier Tower, a San Francisco building three German entrepreneurs bought for $11 million to create a live-work space for tech builders. The 16-floor tower at 6th and Market now houses hundreds of people working in biotech, robotics, AI, and longevity, operating like a nerd-filled frat house.
We are here at Frontier Tower.
There's 12 floors— 12?
16. Last year, 3 German entrepreneurs bought this decrepit building on the corner of 6th and Market Street for $11 million. The trio pitched a rather lofty idea born out of a combination of crypto parties, VC blogs, and Burning Man because, well, of course. The hope for Frontier Tower was to build a space where communities could live and work in one place. The VC world called it a network New York State. I call it a frat house with extra steps and more nerds.
To the top now, we're bustin' to the top now.
The building's owners haven't really succeeded on the dorm room part of the equation, but over the last year, all 16 floors of Frontier Tower have grown its community with hundreds of eccentric builders in biotech, robotics, longevity, artificial intelligence, and whatever this is. Here at Core Memory, we love a group of weirdos. So join us as we enter the rabbit hole, floor by floor, starting from the top. We're here at floor 16.
