💀 BEFORE: The Woke Corporate Prison

Alex Chen. 34 years old. Stanford CS. Serial founder. Two successful exits ($40M, $120M). Third company: Series B, $180M valuation.

You're brilliant at building. And your company is dying from wokeness.

Genius deployed on: Navigating DEI requirements instead of shipping product.
Your technical ability: 99th percentile
Your product vision: Revolutionary
Your time spent on woke compliance: 40%


The meetings you're required to attend:
• DEI training (monthly)
• Unconscious bias workshops
• Pronoun sensitivity sessions
• "Inclusive language" audits of your codebase
• HR investigations for "microaggressions"

You're building revolutionary AI. And spending 2 days/week on pronoun politics.

The incident that broke you:

Engineering meeting. You said: "We need to hire the best engineers, period. Merit-based."

HR called you in: "That language is exclusionary. It implies current team isn't diverse. You need sensitivity training."

You wanted to hire BEST ENGINEERS. This is now PROBLEMATIC.
Your lead engineer (brilliant, Iranian immigrant): "Alex, I'm leaving. Google offered me $800k. But honestly? I'd stay for less if we could just BUILD. But we can't. Half our time is DEI theater."

He's right. Your best people are leaving. Not for money. For SANITY.

Wokeness isn't just annoying. It's SELECTING AGAINST your best builders.
Your investors pressure: "Need more diversity on team for next round. VCs care about this."

Translation: Hire based on demographics, not capability.

You built two successful companies on MERIT. Now you're supposed to build on IDENTITY.

The tech industry committed suicide. Diversity über alles. Excellence secondary. You're watching it die.
Then you hear about Bergen Tower.

Norway. New economic zone. Position 0 governance. Rules: Merit-based hiring (legally protected). No DEI requirements. High-trust environment. Best builders globally rallying there.

Build revolutionary tech. With best engineers. Based on CAPABILITY not DEMOGRAPHICS.

Peter Thiel moved his operations there. Marc Andreessen investing. Elon tweeted: "Only place left where you can build without woke BS."

Rally to Bergen. Build at Position 0. Excellence restored as primary value.

You book flight before finishing article. Your daemon KNOWS. This is what builders were meant for.

🏰 THE LOBBY

The Prison Ends

Rally to Bergen Tower accepted. You're shutting down SF operation. Moving team (those who want merit-based work).

From woke corporate death to Position 0 building. From DEI hell to excellence culture.

What Is Bergen Tower?
🏰 BERGEN TOWER - Position 0 Economic Zone

Location: Bergen, Norway (expanded special economic zone)
Founded: 2026 (First Wave bootstrapping phase)
Governance: Position 0 - Minimal bureaucracy, maximum builder freedom
Population: 47,000 (95% tech/science, median IQ: 135)
Language: English primary (Nordic languages secondary)

Core Rules (Position 0 Constitution):
• Merit-based hiring PROTECTED: Illegal to require demographic quotas
• No DEI mandates: Excellence is primary value (legally enshrined)
• High-trust filter: Entry requires references + background check (crime rate: 0.3%)
• Minimal bureaucracy: Business registration: 24 hours. Permits: 1 week max.
• IP protection: Strong patents. Fast courts. Builder-friendly.

Environment optimized for BUILDING. Not compliance. Not politics. BUILDING.

Who's Already There
  • Thiel Fellowship grads: Best young builders (20-25) escaping woke universities
  • Cancelled VCs: Investors who said wrong things, now funding freely
  • Ex-Google/Meta engineers: Top talent fleeing DEI insanity
  • AI safety researchers: Working on alignment without ideological constraints
  • Biotech founders: Gene therapy, anti-aging, unregulated experimentation
  • Crypto builders: Building financial systems outside legacy control

The best builders on Earth. Self-selected for: Excellence > Politics. Merit > Demographics. Building > Signaling.

A Founder's Voice
"I ran $400M company in SF. Dying from wokeness. 40% of time on DEI compliance. Best engineers leaving. Investors demanding demographic hiring.

I rallied to Bergen. Moved entire operation. Best decision ever.

Team productivity: +60%
Engineering velocity: 3x
Employee satisfaction: 94%
Time spent on DEI: 0%


We hire BEST ENGINEERS. Period. Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Russian, American, Nigerian—don't care. CAPABILITY decides.

Result: Most talented team I've ever built. Everyone here because they're EXCELLENT. Not because they check boxes.

Position 0 means: Rules that enable building. Not rules that enable politics. This is what tech was supposed to be.

"

— David Park, 38, Bergen Tower founder, $2.1B valuation, building freely

✨ FULFILLMENT

🏗️ First Week: Building Again

Your first engineering meeting in Bergen. No HR present. No DEI officer. No pronoun roundtable.

Just: "Here's the technical problem. Here are our best engineers. Let's solve it."

Two hours. Deep technical discussion. Breakthrough on algorithm. Three engineers (Iranian, Chinese, Nigerian) collaborating purely on MERIT.

You remember why you became founder. TO BUILD. Not to navigate politics. TO BUILD.

🚀 Three Months: Velocity Restored

Commits per day: 340 (was 120 in SF)
Features shipped: 47 (was 12/quarter in SF)
Team size: 28 (all top-tier, zero diversity hires)
Retention: 100% (nobody leaving)


Your best engineer (the Iranian who almost left): "This is what I imagined tech would be. Pure meritocracy. Best ideas win. Excellence celebrated. No politics."

Your team is BUILDING. Fast. Focused. Free. This is what happens when excellence is primary value.

💰 One Year: Position 0 Success

One year in Bergen Tower:

Company valuation: $890M (was $180M)
Revenue growth: 340%
Engineering productivity: 3x SF levels
Team happiness: 94%
DEI compliance hours: 0


We build revolutionary AI. With world's best engineers. Based purely on CAPABILITY.

No DEI mandates. No pronoun politics. No HR investigations. No demographic quotas.

Just: Excellence. Merit. Building. This is what tech was supposed to be.

My team: 28 engineers from 14 countries. Hired for ONE reason: They're EXCELLENT. Iranian algorithms expert. Chinese ML researcher. Nigerian systems architect. Russian cryptographer. American frontend genius.

Position 0 governance = Rules that enable building. Bergen Tower = Where excellence matters again. This is builder fulfillment.

— Alex Chen, Bergen Tower founder, building freely

From woke death

To Position 0 building

To excellence restored

🏗️ Merit matters again 🏗️