FR8 runs a 54-room former hotel and university building in Finland that it calls a hacker hotel, startup incubator, and research lab in one, covering rooms, meals, laundry, and flights with no equity taken, so founders can focus fully on their work for three months. It looks for technically skilled, highly ambitious people working on extreme or unusual ideas rather than requiring credentials, a polished idea, or prior startup experience, and its early participants have included very young builders with experience at places like Microsoft, NASA, Apple, and OpenAI-backed startups.