Leam: Everything becomes a race for credibility, as i tell folks. You're so much more credible when people can use the product. Starting an accelerator is very easy, and running one is extremely hard and painful. The amount of work it takes for our team to do this, to sort through all the company's applying spend 16 weeks with them. A that being said, joining any accelerator, as long as you're not giving away more than six or seven % of your company for a brand new company, is not a big deal. It will start the conversations. And it does open up all conversations.
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).