Hey, everybody. It's another awesome show for you today. We're going to do founder pitches for $25,000. I got such an amazing response from y'all the YouTube comments were on fire.

You loved episode 1703 where we had four founders from the founder university program pitch me for two or three minutes and take some questions about their startups and then I made a decision to invest $25,000 in one of those companies today.

Three more founders three totally different ideas and I will give $25,000 at the end of this program to one of those three founders. I will invest it. It's not a prize. It's an investment. We want to see these companies become unicorns and leave us a great review on YouTube.

You can go to youtube.com slash this week in to see all this great comments. That's one of the things I have been absolutely delighted with. I'm spending so much time in the comments as are my producers.

That we're actually starting to see a very positive community on YouTube and I want you to be part of that community youtube.com slash this week in. This is going to be a great show stick with us.

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So we have a couple of hundred people go through the founder university program and with me are the two individuals who are running founder dot university that's the url.

Prush and Kelly how we doing right doing well that it.

Okay and so more importantly what was the reaction after last week's episode we had for different founders pitch me for 25k prize we won't tell people what happened in that episode but it was last.

Friday's episode and it was episode 1703 so if you're looking for this week in startups episode you can type in this week in startups episode 1703 what was the reaction from the founder university community.

So the folks in the community were really jazzed about it loved seeing their peers up on the podcast and we also got an influx of applications for folks that want to attend our next cohort.

Awesome.

Prush tell everybody how they can apply to come to founder university when it's starting and what we're looking for in terms of people to come to the 12 week program.

Yeah so our next workshop or next course starts April 24th that's their kickoff we're actually doing a live kickoff in SF so that'll be some fun yeah.

You go to find it optional to come by the way some people will do remote so people prefer to do in person so one of the weeks the first kickoff week will be in person yep.

I'm going to founder university slash apply and fill out our form Kelly and I go through applications on a rolling basis and accepting.

Founders as we go so we're what we're looking for builder founders primarily so what does that mean you've built a product your technical even as far as I could designer or growth person.

You can build something put it out there and get users for it that's really the point of the program and the program is designed to help you launch your MVP you could already have an idea you could already have a launch product.

The program will just connect you with a bunch of founders and you'll you can launch or you can relaunch but that's the point of the program and the end of it will potentially invest in some of the best performing companies or products.

So Kelly if I'm just an idea person.

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