launch house

launch house

In 2021, dot.LA reported on the invasion of the startup live-in incubator. โ€œIn the Hollywood Hills, a collective started by two twenty-seven year-old entrepreneurs is helping seed-stage companies land funds and build up their products,โ€ wrote Katherin Abando. โ€œAcross town, a roving launch house focuses on building biotech entrepreneurs. Another is trying to foster breakthrough products in augmented reality.โ€

Fast forward a year. The collab house modelโ€”which often touts itself as an educational program for tech entrepreneurs to live together and develop their companiesโ€”is facing an existential crisis, with at least one of the examples lauded in the article facing multiple allegations of fostering a culture that led to sexual assault, harassment and in one case, retaliation against a member of the house.

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