The video captures a series of short, heartfelt thank‑you statements from eight Techstars Summer 2017 founders (labeled A–H) expressing deep gratitude to mentor Alex Iskold. Each participant highlights how Alex’s guidance, encouragement, and hands‑on support helped their companies—such as Path Gatherer, Vital Leaf, and Turing Group—overcome challenges, grow personally, and achieve product‑market fit during the three‑month program. The speakers repeatedly mention Alex’s availability, strategic feedback, and belief in their vision, and several explicitly request his continued advisory role beyond the program, underscoring the lasting impact of his mentorship and the sense of belonging to the Techstars community.
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Yo, Alex!
Hi, Alex!
Hey, Alex! Hi, Alex!
Hey, Alex! Hey, Alex!
Thank you, Alex! Thanks a lot, Alex! Alex, my man! Hey, Alex! Hey, Alex!
Hey, Alex! Hi, Alex!
Alex, you guys are incredible. You really convinced me. I doubted you, but you always believed in me, and now I believe in you guys. I'm just kidding. I love you guys. Thanks! We learned a lot from you over the last summer, and I'm not even 100% sure we'd be here without you today. We had a lot of fun, and we learned a lot from you, and we're looking forward to continuing the relationship and bringing everything forward.
Meeting you in Lisbon feels like so long ago, and we've come such a long way in just 3 short months because of you. Thank you so much.
Doesn't seem like it was too long ago where I was meeting you at a coffee shop just to ask about, you know, the best way to leave Beth Gather and you spontaneously asked me to come back and do this again.
You've just like scraped me off the ground and helped me become like the CEO that I wanted to be.
For giving us lots of support and lots of encouragement when things got really tough. You were always there when we needed you, always had helpful feedback for us and ways to help us move forward, so thank you so much, Alex.
I just feel so grateful for everything you've done. For everything.
For everything you've done. Thank you so much for everything. Thanks for being awesome and geeking out with us this summer.
Thanks for everything, first with Path Gatherer and now with Vital Leaf. And your help day in, day out, and it feels like, you know, you're doing it selflessly, and I know you're putting in a ton of work for all these different companies, and honestly, I feel like I can't thank you enough. And Jill, KJ, Raj, like all the team that you have around you, you have A players around you, which means you're an A player.
I don't know where we'd be without your guidance and just your support and motivation throughout the program.
From the bottom of my heart, I honestly wanted to say thank you so much. I'm super grateful for this life-changing experience, so thanks. Hearing us out on late nights when we might be disagreeing about some things For your incredible support.
For making me part of the Techstars community.
Amazing guidance throughout the whole program and just believing in us from day one. Can you just be our advisor, like, after this? Because I don't want it to end right now.
Like, I need you as the advisor of my company forever, please.
It's been absolutely amazing, just the progression that I've been able to make personally and with Turing Group. So just wanted to say, bottom of my heart, thank you.
I don't know where we would be right now without you. And so I'm really glad to be part of your family now. You're incredible and you're an inspiration.
