Mentoring Tomorrow’s Founders: Rediscovering a Traditional American Dream Through Discipulus Ventures
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 fraction seek out founders who are explicitly aligned with some set of values — let alone classically conservative values like family, patriotism and faith.
Discipulus Ventures, which kicked off its first 10-person cohort yesterday, is a singular exception.
“You can’t say what matters, you can’t say what you think is true, and that’s obviously not going to be good if you want to solve these problems,” he said.
The city’s reputation has grown in recent months as a breeding ground for a new type of hard tech founder, one very much like the type Discipulus is trying to attract.