Founder Institute Mentors

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The Founder Institute carefully recruits 20-40 Mentors per semester, and we typically only accept Mentors that have built or led fast-growth technology businesses.

Our Mentors lead the weekly training sessions, and their mandate is to help our participants by sharing their experience, outlining the latest tactics, and providing critical feedback. In addition, through the Founder Institute's Shared Liquidity Pool, Mentors are strongly incentivized to help our companies after Graduation, and many have become formal advisors and investors to our Graduate companies.

Mentors

Aaron Patzer

Founder, Mint.com

Adeo Ressi

Founder/CEO, Founder Institute

Alexandra Johnson

Managing Director, DFJ VTB Aurora

Alexandra Wilson

Founder, Investor & Advisor, Gilt Group, Montage Ventures

Alexis Beechen

Co-Founder & CEO, The Drop, Mangrove Estates

Bob Richards

Founder & CEO, Moon Express

Bram Cohen

Founder, BitTorrent, Chia Network

Cheryl Yeoh

Founder, Investor & Advisor, Reclip.It, MaGIC

Claire Mc Gregor

Co-Founder, Appbot

David Sacks

Founder & Investor, Yammer, Paypal, Zenefits

David Wu

General Partner, Maveron Ventures

David Rose

Author & CEO, Gust, New York Angels

Divya Gugnani

Co-Founder, Send the Trend, Wander Beauty

Emna Ghariani

Global Director, Founder Institute MENA

Eren Bali

Founder, Udemy, Carbon Health

Eric Ries

Author & Founder, The Lean Startup, Long Term Stock Exchange

Garrett Camp

Founder, Uber, Expa, StumbleUpon

Gina Bianchini

Founder & CEO, Mighty Networks, Former CEO of Ning

Heather Harde

CEO, TechCrunch

Holly Liu

Co-Founder, Kabam

Jason Calacanis

Author, Investor & Founder, Inside.com, LAUNCH Accelerator

Jason Johnson

Founder & CEO, August

Jeffrey Paine

Managing Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Jessica Alter

Entrepreneur & Advisor, Tech for Campaigns, Social Capital

Jessica Mah

Founder & CEO, inDinero, Impact Collective

Jill Stelfox

Co-Founder, Graffiti Sports, Binary Group

Jilliene Helman

CEO, RealtyMogul.com

Joanna Lord

CMO, ClassPass

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder, Founder Institute

Jonathan Abrams

Founder, Nuzzel, Friendster

Justin Moore

CEO & Investor, Axcient

Kirsten Rose

Head of Low Emissions, BHP, Clean Energy Entrepreneur

Lucy Beard

Founder & CEO, feetZ

Mark Pincus

Founder, Zynga

Michael Seibel

CEO & Partner, Y Combinator

Nitin Pachisia

Founding Partner, Unshackled Ventures

Phil Libin

Founder, All Turtles, Former CEO of Evernote

Rashmi Sinha

Co-Founder, SlideShare

Robin Chase

Co-Founder & Former CEO, Zipcar

Rosemarie Truman

Founder & General Partner, Gazelle Futures, Center for Advancing Innovation

Sam Yagan

Co-Founder, OK Cupid, ShopRunner, Techstars Chicago

Scott Heiferman

Co-Founder & CEO, Meetup

Scott Painter

Founder, Fair.com, TrueCar, CarsDirect.com

Tim Ferriss

Angel Investor & Author, 4-Hour Workweek

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