bobs collective

"fuck the ecosystem, just build"
- bob

what?

we are a founder/hacker collective, originating from Aalto University (Finland), group of friends (bobs), and we'll build the next billion $/€ companies. most of us are IEM/CS/IT/robotics students(or dropouts), but there is also one psychology student (ask him REM sleep advice after 8 Red Bulls)

mission

we believe that, over the next five to ten years, decacorns and hectocorns will emerge from Finland and Europe. these companies will not be built on hype (pöhinä), but rather on fucking big ambition, cases of Red Bull, state-of-the-art machine learning and deep-tech. we are tired of seeing slop AI apps that keep GitHub's servers warm. we want to develop technology that bends reality. bobs collective is going to lead this shi(f)t.

specifically

it started as a few of the most cracked builders in Otaniemi. more have found their way in since. we each build something of our own. each of us are very deep in one very niche tech domain and we brainstorm together how does the future look like. members of bobs collective win every hackathon there is.

site schedule

what does the bob do?

builders’ bath

after a hard day's work, bob likes to take a sauna, have a few beers, and grill some meat.

wendy’s workshops

bob does 100-hour research sprints on random sh*t

build days

bob does 24 hour mini hackathons where the goal is to make smth which generates $

our principles

• fuck around and find out ← important
• code is cheap, show me the prompt
• it’s a misconception that you must work at a startup before becoming a founder
• if you're not making enough progress, blow your product up
• if you think it can't work, read more about ASML lithography machines
• if it takes more than 15 minutes, there is probably an AI slop app to do that
• if you have a good idea, you have 15 seconds to start working on it
• work without compromises, tirelessly, and show up every day
• it’s useless to study at university because AGI is going to take your job
• question everything, especially what you’re told not to
• 1 € in Stripe beats a hundred customer conversations
• no time to eat, so yfood meal replacements

you belong here

• you got bored with how easy school was and started doing cool side projects instead
• your favorite program as a child was Excel
• you are obsessed with topics like:
• LEGO Mindstorm
• cryptography
• radio astronomy
• Dvorak layout
• CTF challenges
• trains
• Rubik's cube
• you own one or more of these clothing items:
• I use Arch btw T-shirt
• Occupy Mars T-shirt
• you are always thinking about potential business ideas
• you like to build for 18 hours straight

reach out

does this www page resonate with you? Do you have inner Bob the Builder energy? If you are building something or are a cracked dev (we need early employees), you need to be Sherlock Holmes and find us.