👋 Hey, it’s Remy.

Over the past year, something subtle but important happened.
What started as experiments around games and founders began to look like a real coordination layer between people who think in incentives, edge, and compounding moves.

2025 validated the thesis.
2026 is where we start shaping what this becomes next.

This edition is about what last year proved, and what we are deliberately turning on now.

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2025 was a year of validation.
2026 will be a year of solidification and expansion.

In the last edition, we outlined a few things that quietly but clearly became true:

This edition is about what that means in practice for 2026.

One of the clearest conclusions from the past 8 months is that this is no longer just a set of events. It is becoming a shared space of thinking, language, and values that people recognize themselves in.

Up to now, a lot of that signal has lived implicitly in IRL rooms. That scales poorly. If we want this to become durable, legible, and accessible beyond whoever happens to be in London, SF, or Berlin on a given week, we need clearer online anchors.

In 2026, we are deliberately simplifying where this lives.

This newsletter will become the primary narrative layer, but also one of the main cannons of the ecosystem.
It is where long form thinking, reflections, direction, and coordination live.
It is also how people discover each other, plug into games, and tap into the broader network.
Less noise. More signal. Fewer channels. More coherence.

Discord will remain the primary interaction layer.
This is where online games happen, cities coordinate, and people meet between IRL events.

IRL games will continue to be hosted on Luma for now. Operationally, this works well. But longer term, we are working on a structure that more tightly connects the IRL and online layers into a single experience. The boundary between “online” and “offline” should feel thinner over time.

We want the online layer to reflect what actually happens in rooms. Who shows up. Who plays. Who compounds relationships across games and cities. Think more immersion, shared context, and lightweight meta layers around participation (leaderboards, continuity across games, and similar mechanics). More on this soon.

The intent here is simple: fewer surfaces, clearer voice, stronger sense of shared space.

Over 2025, a few things became hard to ignore. The people this community attracts tend to share a very specific way of thinking. Games turned out to be a surprisingly clean filter for finding founders, operators, and investors who reason clearly under uncertainty and compound small edges well. Over time, this created a dense cluster of capable, aligned people who started helping each other in real, concrete ways.

That validation changes what becomes possible next.

Another thing 2025 made obvious is that many of you are, quietly, extremely powerful and impressive individuals.

Some of you have very visible signals (exits, GP roles, elite technical credentials). Others do not. But once you actually play with people, those distinctions blur quickly. A surprising number of you turned out to be sharper, more principled, and more high agency than your LinkedIn would suggest.

That matters.

When you have a dense cluster of capable people who trust each other, leverage emerges. Not in a hand wavy “network effects” sense, but in very concrete ways: access, distribution, capital, talent, and information start flowing more efficiently.

But there is a second order effect here.

As this cluster becomes legible from the outside, the collective itself starts to look like a single high quality surface. Not just individuals helping each other, but a coherent group that other strong actors want to engage with, support, and allocate resources to. Funds, platforms, and companies do not just want access to one person at a time. They want access to aligned, capable clusters.

This creates clear scope for building a serious partnership layer.

In 2026, we want to start formalizing that route. This means building deeper partnerships with funds, operators, tooling companies, platforms, and ecosystem players who can provide real advantages to people in this network. Not generic discounts or logo walls, but resources that actually move the needle at different stages.

The ambition here is to make this community increasingly useful in practice, not just intellectually or socially.

If you are building something hard, the goal is that being in this network tangibly increases your odds of succeeding.

One of the most encouraging signals from 2025 was how many of you independently reached out wanting to contribute.

People offered to host games in new cities.
To help onboard newcomers.
To mentor early stage founders.
To connect parts of their networks.
To help shape formats, content, and direction.

That energy is real. But unstructured participation does not scale. If everyone pulls in slightly different directions, you end up with chaos rather than compounding.

In 2026, we are designing clearer ways for people to be involved in building this together. Think of this less as “volunteering” and more as giving aligned people meaningful ways to take responsibility over parts of the system.

The mental model here is coordination, not control.

Mathematically, the goal is to design structures where individual contributions push toward the same global direction, rather than diffusing effort. We will share more about how this works soon.

If you have felt the pull to be more involved, there will be streamlined path to do so at any levels.

Finally, we want to be explicit about something: this is not meant to collapse into a single narrow product.

Most of us here have built AI systems or technology that ended up being used by large organizations. We know how to ship product. We know how to build software. The hard part of what we are doing now is not technical execution. It is social alignment.

This project is supported by technology, but shaped by community design. This is a skill that is not really spoken much about and that is somehow different (yet shares similarity) to traditional product development. The bottleneck is not building tools. It is designing incentives, norms, and coordination across people who are independently strong.

At a high level, the goal of this community is simple: to provide as much leverage as possible to people trying to do hard, high impact things in technology.

You can think of each of you as an agent operating in a very complex environment. The role of this network is to improve your policy and expand your action space.

Internally, that looks like:

Increasing your effective energy and momentum by surrounding you with people who think clearly and act decisively.
Giving you peers who help you reason better about hard decisions.
Reducing the cognitive and emotional load of building alone.

Externally, that looks like:

Better access to talent, capital, distribution, and information.
Earlier exposure to opportunities.
Faster feedback loops on ideas and execution.

A different way to look at what we are building is as early infrastructure for a “country for techno innovators.” Not in a geopolitical sense, but in the sense of building shared rules, coordination structures, and advantage layers for a very specific set of people.

We are intentionally narrow on who this is for: startup founders, operators, and investors. We select for these profiles through games. Not as a gimmick, but as a way to surface real ability. To be here, you need to show evidence of exceptional thinking, execution, or both.

The ambition is to align these groups in the most efficient way possible by giving them structures that create real, unfair advantages when they interact.

The potential surface area of this project is large. We all feel that. But we are deliberately not over constraining the path yet. The right shapes will emerge as density and trust increase.

What stays constant is the north star: undeniably increasing the odds that founders in this network win their markets.

This is also a call to you.

You have real influence on how this evolves, which parts get built first, and what ends up mattering. We engage with everyone. We read every single email. We care about your thinking. If something here resonates or feels off, hit reply, even if it’s a 2 word answer.

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We’re aiming at something pretty ambitious here: building a community that actually compounds people’s leverage, not just another series of nice events.

The thesis hasn’t changed. The way we explain it is still evolving.

The focus this week has been narrative and reach, mostly because it’s hard to compress what we’re trying to build into something that travels as cleanly as it could. If we can’t say it simply, it doesn’t spread. We’ll likely ask for your input on some of this soon.

On the “reach” side, games are populated with regulars and friends. Word of mouth is scaling nicely. However, algorithmically, there is a lot of room for us to improve. Our content rule for next months to expand reach on socials is dumb simple:

We’ve been doing A LOT of cool stuff (+ lots to announce) but just been really bad at talking about them. We’re going to double down on both.

Something that reinforced the rightness of the direction we’re taking on the above points have been hanging out with Tyler, the CEO of beehiiv, this week. We talked newsletters, media incentive structures, different media paradigms, what the best newsletter have in common, and what “building a voice with and for the community” actually should be done if aiming to do things perfectly. Some of those ideas will probably leak into how this thing evolves.

This is live storytelling. The story is the same. The expression is iterating.

An ecosystem centered around Maths × Startups x Games.
You’re seeing it form in real time.

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