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FI Chicago 2019 Directors - Jason Jacobsohn & Jason Randolph

Name: FI Chicago 2019 Directors - Jason Jacobsohn & Jason Randolph
Uploaded: 2019-03-01T01:56:27+00:00
Duration: 1 min 2 s
Channel: Royston G King
Description: In this brief presentation, the Chicago directors of the Founder Institute discuss the program’s seven‑year history in the city, highlighting a surge in…

1 Mar 2019 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the Chicago directors of the Founder Institute discuss the program’s seven‑year history in the city, highlighting a surge in demand that produced the highest number of applicants ever recorded and a plan to launch the largest cohort to date. They also emphasize a strategic focus on supporting female founders, noting that Chicago hosts the nation’s largest female‑founder community and that recent cohorts have comprised 40‑50% women, making the expansion of this support a key objective for the coming year.

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We've been running Founder Institute here in Chicago for the past 7 years. We've seen an incredible amount of growth and demand in the entrepreneurial community. In fact, over the last year we've had the most applicants in our program. We intend to build the largest cohort we ever had here in Chicago over the next year.
One of the goals of Founder Institute this year is gonna be really supporting the female founder community here in Chicago, which is actually the largest of any city in the entire United States. Founders Institute is fully dedicated, and even in the last two cohorts, 40 to 50% of our classes have been female founders. So growing that support is one of our key objectives.