The exit is already happening
Austin is the default landing site for founders leaving California and New York. A Network School campus doesn't have to import a community here — it plugs into one that already voted with its feet.
Network School works because it puts ambitious people in one place, on one schedule, with one standard. Austin is the American city where that already happens by accident. This is the case for doing it on purpose.
0%
State income tax
300+
Sunny days per year
#1
US metro for net tech in-migration
3hr
Flight to either coast
Why here
Six reasons Austin outperforms every other US candidate.
Crypto, AI, and hardware in one metro
Huge Tesla and SpaceX facilities, major Apple, Google, Samsung campuses, and a deep bench of AI and bitcoin builders sit inside a 30-mile radius. Cohorts get proximity to real operators, not Zoom cameos.
Built for daily physical training
Lady Bird Lake trails, Barton Springs, greenbelt climbs, and a mild winter make the fitness half of the NS curriculum a year-round default rather than a seasonal experiment.
A regulatory climate that says yes
Texas has passed some of the most builder-friendly digital asset and business formation law in the country. Experiments that stall elsewhere can simply run here.
Cheap enough to compound
Housing, food, and space cost a fraction of SF or Singapore. Longer runways mean longer cohorts, larger campuses, and members who stay past the first month.
A city that likes new tribes
SXSW, Consensus, and a decade of pop-up communities mean Austin already knows what to do with a few hundred ambitious people who show up together. There is no immune response.
“Start with a cloud community, crowdfund physical territory.” Austin is where the American cloud already lands. The territory is the only step left.
The premise of the network state, applied locally
The path
From signal to campus.
Phase 1
Signal
Collect commitments from Austin-based and Austin-curious NS members.
Phase 2
Pop-up
A 30-day cohort in a leased East Austin building. Train, build, ship, measure.
Phase 3
Campus
A permanent site east of town: housing, gym, studio, and co-working under one roof.
Put your name on the Austin cohort.
No fees, no commitment. A headcount is the first piece of evidence any campus decision needs — and the fastest way to show Austin is ready.