Bali: A New Way of Life for Nomadic Entrepreneurs #shorts #travel #connection #bali #nomad

5 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this short personal narrative, the speaker recounts spending eight months in Bali during the 2021 pandemic while running a startup focused on online connection. Rather than renting a small place for just the co‑founders, they secured a four‑bedroom beach house and invited other startup founders and digital nomads to live with them. The house featured a large communal wooden table where everyone worked side‑by‑side, sharing ideas and giving each other real‑time feedback. The speaker describes how a housemate questioned the framing of their pitch deck, prompting deeper reflection on the problem they were solving. The story highlights the benefits of co‑living for entrepreneurs: constant peer support, spontaneous idea exchange, and a supportive environment that accelerates startup development.

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So I was living in Bali in 2021 for 8 months during the pandemic, and at the time I got a 4-bedroom house near the beach. And at the time I was also working on a little startup around connecting people online, right? Instead of me and my then co-founder like getting house and just the two of us living together, we said, hey, why not get a bigger house and invite other people to live with us, right? Also, instead of just inviting random people, let's try to find other startup founders, you know, or like other entrepreneurial digital nomads to come and live with us, right? We had this big wooden table in the living room and we were kind of like always working together. And then one of us would always be like, hey, like, I'm very curious about what you're doing, you know, tell me more about like why. For example, I was building this pitch deck for raising money for our startup back then. And then basically a friend of ours was like, hey, like, why are you laying out this problem this way? Like, why are you so excited about solving this problem?