Step inside one of SF's oldest hacker houses, where founders have slept in tents and closets while raising $2 billion in VC funding

Residents Conor Brennan-Burke and Surabhi Todi at Mission Control in San Francisco's Mission District.

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• Mission Control was founded by a group of former Thiel fellows in 2013.
• Far from making hacker houses like this one obsolete, COVID has made them more in demand than ever.
• Mission Control recently expanded, opening a "Satellite." It is also launching a venture fund.

As other San Francisco hacker houses lure young founders with promises of glitzy megamansions and catered food...