At its core, Fire Collective is a social club for young professionals looking to build their careers and make friends along the way. We facilitate IRL meet ups, lectures, dinners, coffee dates, cocktail hours, bbqs, picnics, and group trips.
The simple and loose hypothesis is that if we put the right people in a room together, magic will happen—the collective will vastly outperform the sum of its individual parts, and have a blast doing so.
While anyone is free to apply, we are focusing initially on “independent workers”
This includes:
If you are currently “doing your own thing” or find yourself dreaming about doing so—if you want to turn your side hustle into your main hustle, Fire Co. might be the right place for you.
Starting your own freelance practice or business can be a difficult and lonely process. You miss out on much of the structured social activity that larger companies or more traditional career paths facilitate. We think a social club might be the perfect medium to fill that void.
What is more, as independent workers it can be hard to know where the next gig, customer, or client will come from. By creating a trusted network, it becomes easier to crowd source deal flow, share opportunities, and collaborate with folks from diverse backgrounds. As a result we believe the group can work on more impactful and lucrative projects together.
Between the remote work revolution, recent layoffs, and overall gains in economic productivity, we think the nature of professional knowledge work is due for a change.
We believe people will increasingly ditch the traditional “W2” income path and engage in polywork: taking their skills to multiple companies. What is more, we predict people will leverage this new model to work with their friends rather than arbitrary co-workers.
By doing so, folks have a better shot to work on their own schedule and terms, achieve better wages based on the value they produce rather than their geography / background, and have a more resilient, fulfilling, and enjoyable career.
Fire is really about helping people achieve that goal—to reach financial independence, and realize it early in life, so we can focus less on what other people tell us to do, and more on living, whatever that may be.