Mate Newsletter — The Mate Letter, coliving stories and new chapters
Letters from the
road, the villa,
and the people
we travel with.
Every other Friday — a short, honest dispatch. New destinations before they're public, the lessons our mates are learning, and the things we wish someone had told us before our first chapter.
Read by 4,200+ mates across 38 countries
This week
How four strangers became co-founders in 28 days
Mate Calabria · Summer 2025
What's inside
Six things you get,
nothing else.
Every issue is short enough to read with your morning coffee, and good enough that you actually want to.
One story, told in full
A first-hand piece from somewhere we just were — what happened, who we met, what shifted. No listicles, no fluff.
First dibs on every drop
Newsletter readers get the dates, the villa, and the application link a full week before the website. Spots usually go fast.
The people who shaped us
Short, honest interviews with the mates who keep showing up — what they're building, how Mate changed it, where to find them.
Live sessions, free for readers
Once a month, one of our mates runs a 60-min session — pricing, growth, deep work, healthy habits. Recordings go to subscribers only.
What we're actually reading
Three links a week from across the community. Essays, tools, and the occasional rabbit hole — curated, never auto-generated.
How the trips really get built
How we pick a location, vet a host, plan a menu, design a week. The messy parts of running coliving for a living.
Last three issues
A taste before
you subscribe.
#23 · Apr 26, 2026The villa we almost lost
Three days before Calabria opened, our host pulled out. Here's how we found a new one — and what it taught us about trust.
#22 · Apr 12, 2026Bikuma went from solo founder to a team of nine
A short conversation with one of our most-asked-about mates, ten months after his first chapter in Bansko.
#21 · Mar 29, 2026Morocco is back — and it's already half-full
Newsletter readers got 7 days of head start. The remaining spots will open to the public next week. Apply now if you're in.
The only newsletter I read every single time it arrives. It feels like a postcard from a friend, not a marketing email.
Maya · Designer · Subscriber since Issue 02
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Who writes it
Written by the same people who host the trips.
The Mate Letter isn't outsourced and it isn't AI. It's written from the road by Marco, Lucia, and rotating mates — the people you'd actually meet at a Mate dinner.
When something works, you'll read about it. When something breaks, you'll read about that too.
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