Tonight, we go inside the Victorians, the Hillsborough mansions and the bunk-bed flats where tomorrow's unicorns sleep, and ask the question nobody at demo day wants asked: what happens when the house becomes the product and the whole thing's a scandal?This week a private spreadsheet naming more than 100 alleged predators in Silicon Valley surfaced, days after the New York Times published previously unreported police reports from inside the AI industry's party houses. Rent can hit $10,000 a month for a room, and some waitlists run 40 deep. The police logs, it turns out, run long too.A note before we roll tape: most of what follows is allegations, civil disputes and code violations, not convictions. As far as public records show, nobody accused of assault below has been charged, and none of the accused are named. Where people disputed the claims, their side is here too. We cite the links that were reported. Now, let's count down.One more rule for this list: every entry happened at, or was handled by, a hacker or community house in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tech homes that weren't hacker houses and founder houses outside the Bay didn't make the cut.8. TheGlint: The Heroism Accelerator That Couldn't Take Out the TrashUp in Twin Peaks, a 6,800-square-foot mansion called TheGlint billed itself as a "Heroism Accelerator" for Thiel fellows and young founders. It imploded over room fights, egos and dishes nobody washed, then relaunched as Rise, renting bunk beds for $1,100 a month and marketing itself with a Business Insider story about Peter Thiel's partying, plotting prodigies. A neighbor told BuzzFeed it was really a party house, going until 1 or 2 a.m. in a family neighborhood, and that some people on the street moved out because of it. The residents said parties were rare and private. One former resident's verdict: they wanted to save the planet but couldn't even save the house.7. The X-Institute: Code by Day, Nightclub by NightAbove a grocery store at 19th and Mission, a software engineer opened a hacker hostel promising coffee hours with experienced entrepreneurs and total focus. Neighbors reported something else: an unlicensed nightclub serving booze, with drugs on the premises. His defense, per Mission Local, was that the money collected for alcohol wasn't technically a sale. It was a donation. Call it the Mission's first nonprofit nightclub: suggested donation, open bar, no liquor license.6. Chez JJ: The Hacker Hostel Chain That Hit the Real WorldMountain View: legally speaking, a hotel. Back in 2012, a New York Times feature turned hacker hostels into a trend piece. Two weeks later, Mountain View's code enforcement office read it too. The city told Patch that two or three per-night bed rentals in residential neighborhoods met the legal definition of a hotel, and hotels can't operate in residential zones. The operators pitched themselves as a force for social cohesion in tech. The zoning code pitched itself as the zoning code.The Castro: bedbugs, mold and a three-year crusade. The San Francisco outpost of Chez JJ packed as many as 10 guests into a three-bedroom Castro flat. The man living downstairs, a government investigator, spent years fighting it: complaints to the city, a letter to Airbnb's CEO, and eventually a lawsuit alleging bedbugs, mold and emotional distress. The hostel had already shut down its operation there, and the city's fines totaled $5,422, which he argued wasn't nearly enough. The hostel's side said he harassed them with loud knocking and music on a loop. By 2015, Wired was chronicling the hostel's collapse.5. The Spice King of Zanzibar: Mermaids, Rats and a "Possible Kidnapping"In Hillsborough, a 6,000-square-foot home run by a host known online as the "Spice King of Zanzibar" threw mermaid pool parties and jungle nights.The chandelier. By the time he moved out, the landlord told police the house was wrecked: real chandelier crystals swapped for plastic, soundproofing everywhere, and a rodent infestation serious enough to need professional spraying. Her claimed damages topped $200,000. The host says the landlord knew about the events, he paid a deposit, it was normal wear and tear, and the rats were already there.The police log. Hillsborough police logged more than 20 complaints at the rental between late 2021 and 2024. Most were noise and parking. Two were not: one report noted a "possible kidnapping," and another said the host himself had been beaten up at one of his events. No further details have been made public. The host says he hired security and screened his guests. Which raises the question: screened them for what?4. The EA VictorianIn a fashionable San Francisco neighborhood, a Victorian full of effective altruists, AI researchers and young founders was run by two co-leaders, a man and a woman. In late 2021, according to TIME's 2023 investigation, the male co-leader was accused of sexual misconduct by an ex-girlfriend, and the female co-leader said he had once climbed into her bed without consent. TIME spoke to seven women in the EA orbit describing harassment, coercion and assault, and a culture that preferred to keep things in the family. For a movement built on doing the most good, it was a strange place to go quiet.3. Muse: Asked to LeaveMuse, an "intentional living community" in San Francisco known for immersive toga parties, is at the center of one of this week's accounts. A woman living there on a trial basis in January 2025 alleges a man vouched for by the community offered her ketamine, and that after she had said while sober she didn't want sex, he had sex with her while she was heavily impaired. She says a house leader minimized it and pushed mediation. She was told to leave by the end of March. The man she accused, she says, got to attend a house celebration before she left. Muse did not respond to the Post.2. AGI House: A Custody Battle, 37 Calls to the Cops and a Climb Over the GateThe custody battle. This one isn't a crime. It's a divorce. The Hillsborough mansion started as NeoGenesis in 2022, rebranded as AGI House after ChatGPT launched, and is now the subject of dueling federal lawsuits over who owns the brand. The original founder says it was his idea. The current manager says the founder couldn't keep up with house payments or town complaints, and that he took over. There's now also an AGI House SF, and AGI House's website insists there is only one official AGI House. When your party house needs trademark counsel, you may no longer be a party house.37 calls to the cops. The mansion has hosted Sergey Brin, Grimes and hackathons co-hosted by Anthropic and OpenAI. It has also racked up 37 police incidents since 2022, at least 17 tied to large parties, plus a car that flew through the air at one event and a "Midnight in Paris" night with horse-drawn carriages and an Eiffel Tower replica. In November 2023, the town manager sent a cease-and-desist warning that events had become more frequent, often several a week. The manager now says it isn't a hacker house at all, since it doesn't offer an official residency. Noted.2:22 a.m. The call came into Hillsborough police at 2:22 a.m. in December. The woman on the line was already in a Lyft. According to the police report obtained by the Times, she said a male AGI House resident had kept her there, repeatedly pressuring her for sex as she said no, telling her she was old and "would be alone forever." She got out by climbing over the gate. She was unharmed. The house's manager told the Times he wasn't aware of any police reports.1. Genesis: A $60,000 Goodbye, a 13-Year-Old Guest and a Report That's Still OpenGenesis, a five-bedroom San Francisco house cofounded around 2019, billed itself as an oasis for founders and dreamers.The $60,000 goodbye. The landlord billed it differently. She told the Times the house flouted its lease with a rotating cast of residents and left behind more than $60,000 in damage when it wound down around 2021. She sued two house managers in 2023 over roughly $9,000 in unpaid rent and recouped about $5,000. She called the experience a nightmare. Genesis's cofounder declined to comment to the Times.The 13-year-old party guest. Here's a detail that should make every parent in the Bay Area put down their oat-milk latte. A now-19-year-old founder told the Times he used to sneak into Genesis parties at about 13, and that nobody checked anyone's age. Psychedelics and partner-sharing were common at some of these parties, according to the reporting. A middle schooler was apparently in the building. If you run a house that throws parties, you run a venue. Venues card people.The report that's still open. In December 2021, founder Yehong Zhu filed a police report accusing a former Genesis house member of rape and assault. She has since spoken publicly: she says she kept telling him no, that community organizers discouraged her from going to the police, and that when she wanted him removed, they initially proposed putting it to a committee vote. The case remains under investigation. The man she accused left the house and, she says, hasn't been located. A lawyer for Genesis's cofounder said his client wasn't aware of the specific situation and supports cooperating with law enforcement. A vote. On whether she'd keep living with the man she'd accused of rape.Why Don't You Have a Seat Over ThereThe hacker house used to be a ramen budget and a bunk bed. Now some rooms go for $10,000 a month, with waitlists 40 deep. Somewhere along the way, a lot of these houses started acting like companies without any of the things companies are forced to have: HR, background checks, a reporting line that doesn't run through the accused's best friend. It's no accident that the most serious entries on this list share a pattern: someone reported something, and the house reached for mediation, a committee or the door. That's also why this week's whisper-network spreadsheet exists. If you're running one of these houses, do better. Card your guests. Write a conduct policy. And when someone tells you they were assaulted, the answer is the police, not a vote.If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline is 1-800-656-4673.