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This page is not meant to make us sound perfect. It is meant to help you understand what it actually feels like to work here: what we value, what we expect, what can be hard, and why the right people tend to grow unusually fast in this environment.
We are not trying to be the right workplace for everyone. Strong cultures never are. They create a strong reaction. Some people read this and think, “absolutely not.” Others read it and feel, “this is exactly the kind of place I have been looking for.”
We are writing this for the second group.
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We believe founders are one of the fastest ways to change the future.
Not every student should become a founder. But the students who have the ambition, agency, and courage to build something new should have a place that takes them seriously early. They graduate before anyone notices and helps them believe building is possible. That window closes.
Our job is to make sure it doesn’t.
Not only by running programs. Not only by organizing events. Those are the visible outputs. The real work is to find the students who could build something ambitious, and give them the skills, the pressure, the network, and the belief to actually do it.
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Every decision should eventually come back to this:
Does this help more ambitious students become founders?
If the answer is no, we should question why we are doing it.
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Founder School is new. That is both the opportunity and the challenge.
There are no decades-old routines, no perfect templates. No fixed answers for what this should become. We are building the plane while flying it but inside a university, with real students, real expectations, and real visibility.
You will help build the structures, rituals, events, programs, and traditions that define what Founder School becomes.
For some people, that feels messy. For others, that is exactly the point.
At most places, ownership is just a word in a job description. Here it describes how we actually move.
If something needs to happen and you see it, you make sure it happens. You don’t wait to be told. You build the first version, show it, you might get hard feedback, and improve fast.
You may be trusted with an event, process, cohort moment, or new initiative before you feel fully ready. That is intentional. We believe people grow fastest when they are given real responsibility.
We do not expect you to know everything. We do expect you to learn fast, ask for help early, communicate clearly, and keep moving.
Titles define your main responsibility. They do not define the limits of your contribution.