{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Good Tech Companies ","title":"EWOR Names Oscar Winner Charles Ferguson to Lead San Francisco Push as US Applications Jump 237%","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":545,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ewor-names-oscar-winner-charles-ferguson-to-lead-san-francisco-push-as-us-applications-jump-237percent.\nEWOR, the 0.1%-acceptance founder fellowship, names Oscar winner Charles Ferguson, Katie Madding and Gigi Brett to its San Francisco team as US applications.\nCheck more stories related to undefined at: https://hackernoon.com/c/undefined.\n You can also check exclusive content about #ewor, #good-company, #ai, #ml, #startups, #software-engineering, #general-tech, #business, and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nEWOR, the Berlin founder fellowship with a 0.1 percent acceptance rate, has named a three-person leadership team in San Francisco after applications from US founders rose 237 percent in twelve months.\n\nThe team is Charles Ferguson, who sold FrontPage to Microsoft for $133 million in 1996, won the Academy Award for Inside Job and has written early cheques into Etched, Perplexity, CopilotKit and Paradigm; Katie Madding, former chief product officer at Adjust and chief executive of Emhance; and Gigi Brett, a three-time founder who becomes chief investment officer.\n\nEWOR gives about 35 fellows a year up to €500,000 and weekly one-to-one mentorship from founders of Adjust, ProGlove and SumUp, without asking anyone to relocate. Fellows raise $10 million on average after Demo Day; a quarter of recent joiners have raised at nine-figure valuations in the past six months.\n\nThe first San Francisco Demo Day is on 9 October, with ten founders pitching to several hundred investors.\n\nThe point of the story is the direction of travel: founders who already live in the world's densest startup market are applying to a European programme in growing numbers, so the programme has come to them.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HZ9CRzf5js9DK86xzUVMWBRbXYwg4dA8xVXJGVzpL6Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMTNl/MjgwMmI0ZmEzNThj/YmJiOWNiN2UyZmRm/MzY3My5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}