The accelerator is a 16-week program that focuses on building great products. We give people a hundred thousand dollars for six % of their company, and we tend to invest in the companies after they graduate. Founder: The accelerato just one of the great joys of my life. I'm so happy that we created it, and we want to keep building it.
First, Jason covers Square's corporate renaming to Block to reflect their broader ambitions (2:11), breaks down the genius of Spotify wrapped (13:15), and gives a nod to Grab's public debut (16:41). Then, Jason is joined by 3 founders who went through the Launch Accelerator, to extract the lessons from the early days of running a company. First is Paul Bloch of Fathom, an AI-enabled podcast search platform (23:03), then Zach Hudson of Deft, a E-commerce search engine (41:58) and finally Liam Gerada of Krepling, a no-code e-commerce platform (54:19).