From the very beginning, the internet was populated by “the granola-eating utopians, the solar-power enthusiasts, serious ecologists and the space-station crowd, immortalists, Biospherians, environmentalists, [and] social activists,” observed Howard Rheingold, the first executive editor of Wired magazine.

This realization led him to join Founders, Inc., a community built for ambitious founders who might not fit the traditional Silicon Valley mold.