SFC Bridge Run
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˜▾˜Hello friends! Come run to the Golden Gate Bridge with us!
We leave at 5:30, so please show up before then. We'll meet on the sidewalk outside our building and run along the Embarcadero from there. The first 3 miles will be no drop (around 10:30 /mile.)
The SFC lore behind "bridge runs":
When sfcompute started, we were this ai lab that had bought a GPU cluster for a year and could only afford a month. Every month, we’d need to find a subleaser or we’d would go under.
That forced us away from doing what we want to and towards being an accidental cloud.
A lot of folks that worked at SFC, rightfully, left during that time. The people who stayed formed the seed of what came to be a very gritty, very long-term minded, first principles culture.
In Brandon Sanderson’s “Way of Kings” book, there’s a small band of folks who are forced to carry big wooden bridges on their backs, position them over a ravine, so that their army can raid the enemy and then retreat back to safety. Every battle, when they do this the enemy shoots the bridge crews with arrows. And battle after battle, people would fall to their death, until eventually the bridge crew escapes from their torment. A lot of the early folks at sfcompute were really into this book and so those early days of the company were referred to as “bridge runs”.
However, in the past year, we deleted our old infra, got out of our initial contract, rebuilt our team, ended up gaining enough of a perspective on the industry to have a real strategy, and started growing.
So anyway, now we do “bridge runs”: a few times a week, lots of folks from SFC will go run to Golden Gate Bridge after dark in a group. Please come celebrate this SFC tradition with us!
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