Imagine a 2600 meeting merging with a school club to provide a 24x7 venue for stuff you&#x27;d see at a HOPE conference or in a 2600 magazine.  For a semi-mythological origin story that&#x27;s not too far off from how it very subjectively feels.<p>Yet the extension of startup culture is true in a sense of massive participant demographic overlap.  Mostly white, highly educated, male, generally hands-off technical background, very young and inexperienced, generally far above median income, overachiever in academic or vocational or artistic or perhaps all three, anti-individualist because its a socializing space, overwhelmingly urban extroverts...  A bunch of socializing young java programmers aspiring to learn how to solder could be a startup staff or could be a hackerspace, depending on where they&#x27;re sitting and who&#x27;s paying the rent at that instant.