Pace Fall Residency

Posted on August 22, 2024. Filed under: Uncategorized |

As you may or may not know, we ran and are wrapping up our first ever Pace Summer Residency this year. Great people came and shared our space for the summer, working alongside us in pursuit of a diverse set of ambitions. We loved it…the Residents loved it…and it feels worth continuing…So I’m excited to open applications for a newly formed Pace Fall Residency. Whether you live in NYC and are just getting started, or you live in the Bay Area/Europe/anywhere else and like the idea of spending the Fall in NYC (def best season too be in NY), we want to invite you to apply for one of six open residency seats at Pace. We have 2-3 desks in our main work area that we’d like to open up to individuals, and then one dedicated space with a door that closes, etc…that’s perfect for two teams of 2 or a team of 3-4. We’re doing this because we like new energy flowing through the office. It’s free. There’s zero expectations that you will take our investment or even talk to us about fundraising. It’s fine if you’ve raised money already, or if you haven’t. Of course, we’re happy to be a resource, but we really just want to facilitate the ambitions of interesting, creative, and inspiring folks while hopefully learning a thing or two from you and vice versa.

Pace HQ is a pretty unique environment both physically and culturally. Physically, we have an incredible space steps from Washington Square Park with outdoor space, lot’s of comfy nooks and work areas, and great venues for hosting larger groups or events. Culturally, this is a place of truth seeking, intellect, integrity, intentionality, laughter and mutual respect. There are only 6 full time people who work at Pace, but we have become a de-facto NY HQ for our friends from out of town to set up shop while visiting. You will meet interesting people here, both on our team, and beyond.

So what’s involved in the residency?

Access to work space from 9AM-6:30PM daily. Most days we have people here well outside those hours, but that’s when you can 100% bank on somebody being around to let you in
Leave your computer/monitors/work stuff overnight, this is dedicated space for you
Access to conference rooms and phone booths so long as schedule permits
Conversation with our team and network in an ad hoc and on demand way. No formal programming/content/etc…
Good snacks and coffee
We host a fair amount of events, you’re invited to most. Get to know our orbit/network
Depending on the ambition, you can probably work with our team to host events/demos/etc on a case by case basis

Who qualifies?

founders, builders, people between gigs thinking about the next thing, angel investors, hackers, whatever…if you have good ideas and are a good person that works for us
people who genuinely want to work in an office most days. It would be a shame to take a seat and not fully utilize it

How do I apply?

Fill out this google form
We’ll run the application process over the first 2 weeks of September and the residency will run from Mid-September-December 20th