Ship26, Unplugged.
Crew member Johannes Röhrenbach brought musicians from all over to Schifflände 26 for a live unplugged evening, and when the room ran out of space the session moved down to the community boat on the Limmat.
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Stories
Notes, essays, and dispatches from the people building at ship26.
Multimodal AI - a world beyond LLMs
Teodora Vuković spent six years labelling speech by hand. At Ship26 she showed the room what machines can now read in a face, a voice and a gesture - and what they still get badly wrong.
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Your spending ratio decides when you stop working
Two people save the same amount every month for thirty years, and one ends up with three times the other. Oliver Angélil spent a Wednesday evening at Ship26 showing the room where that gap comes from, and the three ETFs he holds himself.
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The winemaker who won't tell you what's in the bottle
In his final year at university, Pieter Walser sold wine in bottles with nothing on them. It cost him nearly everything, and the condition for starting again was a label. What he came back with named no grape at all.
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Zürich has the talent. What it needs is density.
Abigail Holland spent six months inside San Francisco's startup scene, then came to Ship26-Talks with a diagnosis of Zürich: the talent and the capital are already here, and density is the piece still missing. Three things she says come next, and a 35-founder dorm that explains why.
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Two weeks, one boat, and nobody else in the water
Xaver Walser brought two weeks of footage from the Banyak Islands to Schifflände 26, and a running commentary on what he was thinking in every frame. Waveski surfing, a year of 4 AM training in a landlocked country, three kinds of wave, and the crew he went with.
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Welcome Oliver: From Climate Science to Cutting-Edge AI
Welcoming Oliver Angélil, PhD — ETH climate scientist, Ishango.ai CTO, and elite athlete — to the Ship26 crew.
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Surround Yourself With Who You Want to Become
Why we built a co-building space on the Limmat where openness beats gatekeeping and everyone genuinely wants you to win.
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The Power of the Right People in the Right Space
A night of live demos — from agentic social campaigns to one-line coding agents — that sparked the launch of the Ship26 Academy hands-on workshops.
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From Running to VC
A morning 6K run, a Limmat cold plunge, and a workshop from a former Googler on running a VC fund with zero employees — and why the future may belong to “Donkeys,” not Unicorns.
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Throw your old titles in the bin
Stephanie Leue came to Ship26 with blunt advice for anyone going independent: throw the old corporate titles in the bin. At a Portfolio Careers Hub event on the Limmat, she made the case that the hardest part of leaving corporate life isn't the work - it's finding the right people, and letting go of the status you used to hang your name on.
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Global Perspectives at the Ship: China
A one-week trip to Shanghai and Hangzhou became a two-hour debate: the room included a former expat, a fluent insider, and a table that wouldn't let an easy thesis stand.
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- Ship26, Unplugged. — Crew member Johannes Röhrenbach brought musicians from all over to Schifflände 26 for a live unplugged evening, and when the room ran out of space the session moved down to the community boat on the Limmat.
- Multimodal AI - a world beyond LLMs — Teodora Vuković spent six years labelling speech by hand. At Ship26 she showed the room what machines can now read in a face, a voice and a gesture - and what they still get badly wrong.
- Your spending ratio decides when you stop working — Two people save the same amount every month for thirty years, and one ends up with three times the other. Oliver Angélil spent a Wednesday evening at Ship26 showing the room where that gap comes from, and the three ETFs he holds himself.
- The winemaker who won't tell you what's in the bottle — In his final year at university, Pieter Walser sold wine in bottles with nothing on them. It cost him nearly everything, and the condition for starting again was a label. What he came back with named no grape at all.
- Zürich has the talent. What it needs is density. — Abigail Holland spent six months inside San Francisco's startup scene, then came to Ship26-Talks with a diagnosis of Zürich: the talent and the capital are already here, and density is the piece still missing. Three things she says come next, and a 35-founder dorm that explains why.
- Two weeks, one boat, and nobody else in the water — Xaver Walser brought two weeks of footage from the Banyak Islands to Schifflände 26, and a running commentary on what he was thinking in every frame. Waveski surfing, a year of 4 AM training in a landlocked country, three kinds of wave, and the crew he went with.
- Welcome Oliver: From Climate Science to Cutting-Edge AI — Welcoming Oliver Angélil, PhD — ETH climate scientist, Ishango.ai CTO, and elite athlete — to the Ship26 crew.
- Surround Yourself With Who You Want to Become — Why we built a co-building space on the Limmat where openness beats gatekeeping and everyone genuinely wants you to win.
- The Power of the Right People in the Right Space — A night of live demos — from agentic social campaigns to one-line coding agents — that sparked the launch of the Ship26 Academy hands-on workshops.
- From Running to VC — A morning 6K run, a Limmat cold plunge, and a workshop from a former Googler on running a VC fund with zero employees — and why the future may belong to “Donkeys,” not Unicorns.
- Throw your old titles in the bin — Stephanie Leue came to Ship26 with blunt advice for anyone going independent: throw the old corporate titles in the bin. At a Portfolio Careers Hub event on the Limmat, she made the case that the hardest part of leaving corporate life isn't the work - it's finding the right people, and letting go of the status you used to hang your name on.
- Global Perspectives at the Ship: China — A one-week trip to Shanghai and Hangzhou became a two-hour debate: the room included a former expat, a fluent insider, and a table that wouldn't let an easy thesis stand.
Our Values
S(Stewardship)Build for the generation to come.
H(Humanity)People before pipelines.
I(Imagination)See what isn't there yet, treat this seeing as part of the work.
P(Possibility)If we can imagine a better future, we can build it.