There's a pattern among the most successful founders.
They all started by learning from those who have built multi billion dollar companies.
Getting mentored by proven founders is the fastest way to accelerate.
Success leaves clues—follow them.
1 week. $10,000.
Your Fast-Track
Into Silicon Valley.
A one-week experience bringing you together with founders of multi billion dollar companies.
Sergey brin & Larry Page (Founders of google)
Mentored by Andy Bechtolsheim (founder of Sun Microsystems)
mark zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook)
Mentored by Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal)
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim (Founders of YouTube)
Mentored by Roelof Botha (PayPal CFO & Sequoia Capital)
Z Fellows connects
really early builders with multi billion dollar founders.
Who are Z Fellows?
Z Fellows are technical builders of all ages working on side projects and startups.
We are your first believer.
We’ve worked with high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs across a variety of industries including consumer, social, enterprise, defense, healthcare, edtech, fintech, gaming, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, crypto, AI, ML, climate, biotech, and more.
Why
Z Fellows?
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
A one-week experience bringing together ten builders with founders of billion dollar companies. It doesn't end after one week—we continue to help you for the life of your company.
MENTORS
Meet the mentors
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Hear from
our alumni
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I was in my bedroom at home building Nucleus for more than a year. I dropped out of school. My parents looked at me like I was crazy. My friends looked at me like I was crazy. Society looked at me like I was crazy. I was losing my mind. I was a one man show in my bedroom. I texted Cory and several days later was accepted into Z Fellows and that changed everything. Today we’ve raised over $15M from the greatest investors on the planet - Founders Fund, 776, CEO of Allergan, etc. etc. I can not overstate the power of Z Fellows. It changes lives!
Z Fellows was such a cool opportunity for me to meet other young founders that are super ambitious and kind and compassionate to each other. In the community, people are so supportive with everything from intros to engineering work - I could not recommend Z Fellows more!
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When we first got into Z Fellows, we didn't know exactly what to expect. Before we knew it, we were on the phone with the founder of Tinder talking about our company! Cory has helped us immensely at every stage of the startup process and if you are starting a company, you would be foolish not to take advantage of this amazing opportunity.
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There’s never been a better time to start a company than today and Z Fellows is the perfect place to start. It’s what got me started on my journey and has enabled me to get to where we are today building a product that has the potential to help millions of people with their mental health. Z Fellows plugged us in to an incredible network of young entrepreneurs and investors and ultimately connected us to General Catalyst who led our $3M seed round. I can’t say enough good things, and you should definitely apply!
My co-founder and I were just two college students, working harder on our idea than our schoolwork, looking for the slightest signal that we were supposed to drop out. Z Fellows was that signal. Just 2 months after joining Z Fellows, we dropped out and have never looked back. Between the information gathered during the sessions, introductions to fellow builders and investors, and the feeling of camaraderie between all of the founders we’ve built alongside for the past 2 years, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to jumpstart our company!
Z Fellows alumni have raised hundreds of millions from top investors
It's happening now.
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