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time at universities in the ivory tower come to an earlier end? Are they gonna break into industry, or are we just cutting off our own, legs to the knees here? Yeah. So we're strong believers in academia and have deep partnerships with many universit
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I would just add that when we think about, you know, breakout AI companies today, the name Lovable comes to mind. They just crossed 75,000,000 ARR, and they're based out of Sweden. And they're about to raise it, according to the Feet, a $2,000,000,00
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Andy Fang and Stanley Tang were the two undergraduate computer science majors, and the two GSB, business school students were Evan Moore and Tony Hsu. So I think the story behind how they came together is that Evan and Stanley had worked on a project
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which means I get the pleasure of identifying the most challenging problems in the airline industry and launching startups that solve the problem, generate revenue, and are scalable, novel solutions. And we go from problem to founders and funding for
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...You'll see a link for Saudi, Tokyo, Japan, and The US programs. Apply. What do you got to lose? Maybe you'll be the next founder that changes the world and that we invest in and hopefully, we can join you on that journey. See you next time on the swi
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...host Founder University. Founder University, twelve week course. It's a pre accelerator. One of the things I learned was a lot of the people who listen to This Week in Startups and who are starting their entrepreneurial career, they want to engage wi
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...university that's done this. So the the founders that come into our accelerator chart, they receive an investment from our dedicated venture fund, the Berkeley Skydeck Fund. That's like any other private venture capital fund, Seed Fund, they've raise
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...other university that's done this. So the the founders that come into our accelerator chart,
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So, you know, like you said, we are a startup that also creates startups, which means that there's a lot of fun and chaos happening pretty much every day. And right now, because we're working with three corporate partners, we're essentially launching
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...university program continues in the empire. The sun will never set on the founder university launch empire. And we're also gonna be announcing another city for This Week in Startups. So there'll be a regional weekly version of This Week in Startups i
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It's interesting because I think the outcome is actually the opposite. We've seen non obvious founders more than, legacy VCs. In fact, we feed a lot of deal flow to, legacy VCs. We've made 278 intros. Last year, I think in the last twelve months, fou
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...about Founder University or its Launch Accelerator, what would you say to them about college dropping out or just finishing up your years? Well, it's a it's a good question. As a parent
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obviously, didn't kinda continue to progress where we thought it was. But I mentioned that because, like, I I I was we were just talking about the way that industry developed, this morning, and and and all of the ingredients can be right. And then, o
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...We're gonna have our tenth class. Some big announcements from Founder University. And, we're gonna invest in 10 companies on the way in, either the 25 k first check or the 125 k more accelerator check. So we're gonna try to invest in 10 companies com
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...University and Launch Accelerator, which are like y Combinator Techstars, and then even a pre accelerator, a startup school, if you will. So, you know, we are an at scale investor, but I think they had the same number of people or less doing three ti
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...my own university, the founder university, teaching you how to be a founder. And that's why I spent so much time getting Founded at University and giving people instead of they pay to instead of paying tuition, we give 25 k to the top 10% of students
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