/filo·kse·ˈni·a/
noun, feminine

The desire to open your home, your network, and your time to someone starting from the same place you once did.

To remember how alone you felt when you did not know where to begin and say: “you should not have to struggle the same way.”

Greek word · Ancient root
philos (friend) + xenos (stranger)
Literally: "love for the stranger"
Dinos and Takis on the podcast Dinos Takis

Two young kids with big dreams

Dinos and Takis on the podcast

3 years later, still chasing the dream...

When Dinos and Takis were 19, they had an idea that sounded impossible: move to San Francisco. Not for vacation, but to be at the heart of technology. The place where everything starts.

No access, no network, no money, and no one who knew what YC or an accelerator even was. We had none of that. But we did have an obsession that would not go away.

Three years later, after failures, mistakes, unanswered emails, closed doors, and a few that finally opened, our team is now permanently in Silicon Valley.

But the longer we live here, the more one thing bothers us: it should not be this hard for a young person from Greece to get close to this world.

What is missing

We do not lack

We lack access and exposure...

Why San Francisco?

San Francisco company map

It is a place where the default is to build.

Where a 19-year-old can talk to a founder who just raised funding.

Where an idea that sounds “too much” in Greece sounds like a starting point here.

Where people do not only ask “what are you studying?”

They ask: “what are you building?”

For two weeks, you will spend days and nights with YC founders and even work next to them in order to learn the best practices.

You will get the chance to visit and have a tour of the very famous headquarters of Apple, Facebook, Google, OpenAI and many more...

Touring Stanford and Berkeley with local students. 2 of the most prestigious universities in the world.

We're tired of events and panel discussions. You have tons of inspirational speeches in mind. Time to take a step ahead and chase those dreams. Probably the only thing you're missing is the chance to be in the right room for the first time.

Our Philoxenia

Could this
be
you?

  • If you're between 15 and 25 years old wherever in Greece
  • You feel like you think differently, and in Greece people look at you a little strangely for your ambition
  • You write code, build projects, fail and try again, because you cannot stop
  • You are not chasing titles, status, or surface-level validation. You want to solve real problems

THE DOOR IS
OPEN.

At one point, we just wanted someone to open a door for us.
Now that we are here, it is our turn.

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