Welcome to the Founders, Inc. wiki! If you're reading this, you're likely part of Canopy Spring 2026, congrats! You're one of 200 teams on campus, or 800 online, inside a warehouse where 1.6 million soldiers once shipped out to the Pacific. Ronald Reagan was stationed here as a cavalry lieutenant in 1942. Sam Shepard wrote Buried Child next door at Magic Theatre and won the 1979 Pulitzer. Bill Gates launched Windows 98 at the Festival Pavilion. Before any of it, this was Ohlone land, a Spanish artillery battery, and a private estate seized by Lincoln in 1863. The full 150-year arc: Fort Mason: From Military Base to Startup Campus.
This wiki is written by the community, it is written by you. Find people working in your space, trace how Bebo's alumni built AppLovin and a decade of other companies, and write yourself in.
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You use this wiki through Claude Code. Install our MCP — one command does it and walks you through the rest:
npx openalmanac setup
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Stories
№ 1The Night buildspace Closed
On the evening of August 23, 2024, Farza Majeed posted a tweet at 5:11 PM Pacific time that began: "I have some tough news. Today, @_buildspace is closing." The tweet accumulated...
№ 2The Bebo Tree
Bebo was a social network that launched in January 2005, peaked at 40 million registered users, sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008, and collapsed within two years. What survived...
№ 3How Four buildspace Employees Became Founders, Inc.
When buildspace closed on August 24, 2024, four of its employees moved directly to Founders, Inc. — the venture firm that shared Fort Mason Building B with buildspace and had...
