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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America
Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a
The mentorship program for young founders is interested in bringing together a rather idiosyncratic type of person, at least in tech: those with the idealism of Plato and the rationalism of Aristotle, with a strong drive to revive a Norman Rockwell–esque Americana. The program’s website is clear about this, with its call to student founders who have “a strict devotion to truth and goodness” and whose vision of the future combines “their entrepreneurship, personal virtue, and obligation to our country.” The emphasis on values stems from a conviction, held by the program’s three founders, that young people are not working on solving some of the hardest problems confronting the country — reshoring manufacturing or providing the electricity grid with plentiful clean energy — because their values are no longer pushing them toward mission-driven companies. He and his two co-founders — Isaac Yi, Discipulus’s COO, and William Pan, the entrepreneur in residence — say they witnessed these values play out across some of the country’s top university campuses, with students flocking to entrepreneurship as essentially a means to an end: to make a bunch of cash quickly or to fit in with their peers.
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