In this short promotional video, the speakers introduce the Founder Institute as a hand‑picked, global network designed for technology entrepreneurs. Speaker B emphasizes that tech companies must think globally from day one, positioning the Founder Institute as a worldwide community of top entrepreneurs. Speaker C explains how the Institute first provides a local ecosystem of fellow entrepreneurs, experienced mentors, and passionate directors who help launch companies, then extends access to a global network after graduation. The platform includes searchable tools that let members find contacts by name, location, or company type. Additionally, the Institute continuously gathers frontline insights from directors across six continents and feeds this real‑time feedback into its curriculum, ensuring the program stays relevant and innovative.
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If you're building a technology company, you've got to be global. Your audience is going to be global, your customers are going to be global, so you're coming out of the gate as a global enterprise. Whether you like it or not. The Founder Institute is a hand-picked network of some of the best entrepreneurs the world has to offer.
The Founder Institute helps entrepreneurs by first giving you a local network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and directors to help you launch your company. These are entrepreneurs at a similar stage to you that are going through the same process. These are mentors that have launched companies in your city and are sharing with you their lessons learned, war stories, and contacts, and directors that are passionate about growing the ecosystem in their city. In addition to the local network, Once you graduate the program, you have access to the global Founder Institute network. Really, I think the biggest value is that you can search anyone in the network using our tools inside the system, you know, based on their name, based on their location, but also based on the type of company that they're building. Any startup should be utilizing their front frontline workers and their frontline customers to basically source their ideas and create innovation. And by talking with our Founder Institute directors from 6 continents across the globe every single week, we're getting that information from the front lines and we're implementing that in real time into our curriculum.
The Founder Institute is in just under 150 cities. We've created over 2,200 graduates. We have 6,500 mentors, and we're on a run rate of launching 5 new cities a week and creating over 2,000 companies a year. To give another sense of the scale, we run about 1,000 events a year, and if all goes well, we might have as many as 100,000 people go through those events.
