We’re building Silicon Valley outside Silicon Valley.

Malaysia, in case anyone else was wondering.

Tf is island near Singapore? Just mention Malaysia

@razibkhan Why don’t you just say Malaysia

LMAO COMMUNITY NOTES 🤣

The only real hustler here is the guy charging $1,500 to these people for creating a human zoo where pretenders can watch other pretenders performing their pretend in real life

The purpose of Network School is to demonstrate that anyone can peacefully start new communities from the Internet. Our vision of the good is a society that's tolerant and meritocratic, affordable and ambitious, high-tech yet extremely offline.

James is from Great Britain. We have many Brits at Network School, and indeed many from the global Anglosphere (including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). All working together to build positive-sum, in-person communities.

Network School members hail from 100+ countries. By assembling in person and building a startup society together, we're proving that online communities can actually cooperate in the offline world.

"A year ago no one knew this place existed" Holy fuck malaysia is getting the Columbus treatment by Silicon Valley caucasians and their south asian friends

Silicon Valley bros will do everything except mentioning Malaysia

Silicon Valley is not Silicon Valley without America , you cannot replicate it anywhere in the world. The Gulf states have been trying for years , yet never succeed. This will just turn out to be a speed dating vacation for rich young 20/30 somethings

A cult

@andrewchen Super cool but I will say I am concerned by the absence of Southeast Asians in this promo

I knew I recognized this building Why do you not mention once in the entire video or post it’s in Malaysia’s Forest City (aka Ghost City)

It’s in Malaysia, Forrest City. It’s a dead city neighboring Singapore. For those who’s wondering

People love college in large part because of the campus product. Living in walking distance of your peers increases serendipity, maximizes connection, and makes it easy to live a healthy lifestyle. Creating this for an international audience is a pleasure and a privilege 🚀

You're building bullshit. None of the startup companies are building anything real. Food delivery apps? SaaS garbage? Slop apple store apps? Absolutely worthless.

Kind of a genius idea to put the most insufferable people on an island on the other side of the planet 👏

Fine line between adult daycare and nextgen incubator. I’m really hope this is the latter

You’ve laid the intellectual foundations for it, and now the physical too.

Oh you mean FOREST CITY in JOHOR BARU, MALAYSIA, where they dredged their coastline, severly affecting the local fishermans income? And the locals cant do anything cause sultan of johor is a mini dictator and can do whatever he wants there? That one right?

I'm really impressed by the progress at @ns since I first came to Network School to speak about Decentralized AI in 2025. Imagine a place that is building the world's most compelling tech, but also cares about family, health, lifestyle, and scaling a global freedom community.

awesome

Ponzi scheme production plant

proud to be part of this from day 1

i think its one of those things, it should happen naturally and shouldn't be like a school/community thing. i just assume that everyone at these types of events/communities are lost.

How do i bet against this

We came to a ghost city and created life. Weddings, health, self-progress, and community. @ns has hit an inflection point. The only way to understand is to visit.

I happen to also live on a small planet just next to Mars

This is a brilliant idea bringing talented people to fill up Forest City, turning a ghost town into a Tech Mecca, great job Balaji!

I bet this founder is stoked that you used a zoom in of her chest as the thumbnail start of the video

Ya'll got booths? If not, you'll need to step it up to match YC

Love the energy

Get the fuck out if you cant say the name of country

Where is the island? In Malaysia, right? Refusing to say Malaysia or even Johor is pathetic.

@yash_luna I have been here for 150+ days, Highly highly recommended to all the ambitious folks! 🙌

Cute, although looks like cosplay Bali types found a new home