Reality
This is a vision, published before it exists.
Everything on this site describes something that has not started. This page says why it will, what it will be, and what is true today. It changes when the facts change, and the log at the bottom is the record.
London took me in.
I owe this city a great deal, and a cheque would not settle it. Whitmont is how I intend to pay it back: with a place that makes founders here, and keeps them here. The longer version is in the Founder's Letter.
A school and a fund in one building.
Small technical teams, backed at the very start, working from one floor in London, with mentors on call and one number published every year. Each of those is planned in detail on The School pages, and none of it exists yet.
Everything in that paragraph is planned. None of it exists yet.
The work comes before the door.
Whitmont Papers are the only finished thing here. They are published in the open, on the fields where the next companies will be born, for as long as it takes to be trusted. The reasoning is on the Vision page. The papers are on the Research page.
What is true today.
- The name is chosen: Whitmont Fellows.Done
- The identity is being made.In progress
- The research programme is running.Done
- There is no cohort.Not started
- There is no building.Not started
- No money is being raised, sought or invested.Not started
- No applications are open.Not started
- There are no dates.Not started
To be clear.
We are not investing. We are not raising. We are not taking applications. We are not selling anything. Do not send decks or money; there is nowhere for them to go.
Three things.
- Read the research. It is the only thing here that is finished.
- If you are building something, leave your name. You will be told when the facts change.
- If you might take part one day, leave your name for that too.
The log
| # | Date | Entry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The site is planned. It launches before the school does, and says so. | Decision | |
| 02 | The measure is set: value per person, not jobs and not valuation alone. | Decision | |
| 03 | The logo carries the full name, Whitmont Fellows. Identity work begins. | Decision | |
| 04 | The name is chosen. Whitmont: a whit, the smallest amount; a mont, a mountain. | Decision | |
| 05 | The vision is written down for the first time: a startup school and fund for London, in one building, for teams of three to five. | Decision |