It is SFZC, the zen center everyone knows. It's actually a system of at least three zen centers: City Center on Page and Laguna; Green Gulch farm in Marin; and

It is SFZC, the zen center everyone knows. It's actually a system of at least three zen centers: City Center on Page and Laguna; Green Gulch farm in Marin; and the Tassajara Monastery in the Ventana wilderness near Carmel. I lived in all three for about a year total, and the community of monks and practitioners moved moved from one to the other for operational and other reasons. It was (and probably still is) a great community. The startup is Skymind.io, which supports an open-source deep learning platform that we created, Deeplearning4j, ND4J, DataVec and some other libs in the JVM big data ecosystem. Startup as utopia is particular, different from previous communities in its main goals of growth and focus on product and customer. But underneath those differences, there are many similarities around how people communicate with and treat each other, and how the organization configures itself to share information, allow for individual autonomy and perform tasks together. The Collison brothers probably have some interesting thoughts about this. I'd be interested to hear from some of the YC partners, too, about the extent to which they want YC to have utopian characteristics.