Bali · Vol. I · 2026
Ten founders. Two weeks. One private villa in Canggu. People who are building something real — and will push you to do the same.
The Premise
Every program sells community. Most deliver a Slack group you mute after three days. The Founders Residence is ten founders, one house, two weeks in Bali. We don't manufacture connection. We just remove what's in the way.
No top-down coaching. No stage. Instead: Hot Seat Sessions, Founder Sessions, Deep Work Blocks, and Keynotes — formats that actually move things. With nine other founders at your level who know what you're dealing with, because they're dealing with it too. Your bottleneck isn't your product, your funnel, or your offer. It's that you're building it all alone.
“You become the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” — Jim Rohn
Who Belongs Here
This isn't for people still in the idea stage. Everyone here has a running business and real revenue — not yet scaled, but not zero either. They're not looking for a coach or an overpriced mastermind. They're looking for nine other founders at the same stage who'll tell them the truth.
You're making money. Not yet enough.
Maybe a few thousand a month, maybe heading toward 15–20k. The business is real. But you can feel the ceiling. And you know the people who break through fastest aren't the smartest — they're the ones in the right rooms.
Real exchange. Not a group chat.
You've tried the discords, the free communities, the entrepreneur meetups. What you actually want is nine people who are building something real, will be honest with you, and are in the same room for two weeks straight.
No mastermind. The right people.
You don't need a guru with a slide deck. You need founders who are building something real, will tell you what they actually think, and won't let you get away with excuses. At a price that's fair — €2.500 for two weeks, all in.
Two weeks. All in.
Not just scroll past it on Instagram. You know you're moving slower alone than you would in the right room — and two weeks in Bali with nine people building the same thing you are is exactly that room.
The Setting
Ceilings high enough that the heat has somewhere to go. Frangipani heavy in the air before you're fully awake. The sound of water before your brain has caught up. This is not a hotel — no lobby, no checkout, no one choreographing your experience from a script. Just a house that holds you at exactly the right distance from everything: far enough to think clearly, close enough to eat well, talk until midnight, and mean every word of it.
Your own room. Your own bathroom. A workspace built for the kind of focus that never quite materialized at home — not a failure of willpower, but a failure of design. When the door closes, the world waits. When it opens, Bali is right there: unhurried, untamed, entirely unimpressed by whatever's in your inbox.
How We Work
Four formats. Each designed to do exactly one thing — not fill time, but break something open. For you, and for everyone else in the room.
One founder. The full group. No warm-up. You put your business on the table — real numbers, the actual problem, the thing you've been circling for months — and nine sharp operators go to work on it. Uncomfortable. Specific. The kind of feedback you can't get from your team, your partner, or your coach.
Everyone in the room has built something the others haven't seen. Fifteen minutes to show it. Thirty minutes to break it apart. No slides required — just the thing that actually moves your business.
Protected time. No agenda, no facilitation, no interruptions. Just you and the work that's been sitting there — the funnel, the offer, the piece of content, the system you keep skipping. You decide what moves. We make sure nothing gets in the way.
The next twelve months, cut into ninety-day sprints. Not a vision exercise — a plan with hard dates, real decisions, and people in the room who've heard you commit to it out loud. Clarity is different when someone's holding you to it.
The Other Half
The off-hours are curated. Not scheduled, not performed, not optimized for content. Something shifts when founders step away from screens together — not immediately, but inevitably. We've built the conditions for that shift on purpose. What you do with them is up to you. You'll understand what we mean the moment you arrive.
Expect to be surprised by what actually gets to you. Expect conversations that start nowhere and end somewhere real. Expect to leave with stories you'll still be telling years from now — and with the people who were in the room when they happened.
A Day in the Rhythm
Breakfast is ready before you are. Fresh fruit, eggs, coffee that actually tastes like something. The kind of start that costs you nothing — no decisions before 9am, no standing in a kitchen negotiating with yourself. Sit down. Eat something real. Begin.
Seven evenings, a private chef cooks in the villa. Real food, long table, the kind of dinner that begins with business and ends somewhere no one planned. The other seven evenings, Bali hands you the keys and gets out of the way.
Scooters at the villa, keys already in. Canggu opens up fast — beach in ten minutes, warungs tucked into side streets, rice fields just past the noise of town, afternoons that don't make it into any calendar. Leave when you feel like it. No one's waiting.
Your Seat at the Table
We read every application ourselves — no filters, no assistants. Tell us where you are, where you're heading, and why this is your moment. The rest happens in conversation.
You're in our hands now.
We've received your application and we're reading it personally. If it's a fit, you'll hear from us directly — usually within a few days. Either way: this was the right move.
