Who we want
in the room.
Thirty teams get in. We are not filtering for pedigree, revenue or a warm introduction. none of that survives the first week anyway. We are filtering for people who can be unreasonable for a fortnight in front of a camera.
Two or three people who have already argued about something hard and stayed in the room. Solo founders are welcome too.
On site, the whole time. No commute home at the weekend, no client projects running quietly in the background, no calendar you are still honouring.
Most teams arrive with nothing live yet. Some arrive with early users or early revenue. Both are fine. What matters is that you are early enough to move fast and are not protecting something.
The cameras are not a formality. Everything you make, break, charge for and get wrong is on the record, and the wrong parts are the ones people remember.
The founders who do well here talk to a stranger before lunch and have something live by dark. Plans are welcome, they just do not count for much by Wednesday.
Revenue is the scoreboard for two weeks. The story, the deck, the following: all of it is a thing you say about the number afterwards.
If you recognised yourself in that, apply.
The application takes about ten minutes and we read every one. We reply either way inside a month, which is faster than most people expect and slower than we would like.