1 week.$10,000.Z Fellows are technical builders of all ages working on side projects and startups.We are your first believer. We’ve worked with high school dropouts, college students, and people with full-time jobs across a variety of industries, including consumer, social, enterprise, defense, healthcare, edtech, fintech, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, crypto, AI, ML, climate, biotech, and more.

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DoSomething.org is the largest non-profit that empowers youth to rock social causes around the globe. 5 million+ members strong globally!

Internapalooza is the largest gathering of Silicon Valley interns, young engineers, and STEM students in the world! Over 20,000 students from colleges across the nation have signed up for previous events. We come together to meet fantastic companies, experience insanely great technology, learn from remarkable visionaries, and forge connections between one another that will define the future.Previous speakers and attendees include: Ashton Kutcher, Travis Kalanick (founder of Uber), Kevin Hartz (founder of Eventbrite), Marissa Mayer (former CEO of Yahoo), Keith Rabois (VC at Founders Funds), Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal) Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), Danae Ringelmann (co-founder of Indiegogo), Kara Swisher (co-founder of Re/code), and Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram).

I have given speeches on entrepreneurial related topics at SXSW, Duke University, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, USD, Drexel, Indiana University, University of Michigan, USC, University of Maryland, University of Illinois, Stanford, Boston College, and Boston University.

Built a number of social apps.One was called After School, which was a teen social network. Grew to 20m+ users. Acquihired by Ancestry.

I shadowed managing director, Albert Wenger. I was given the opportunity to sit in on a partner meeting, observe a board session, and watch people present to Albert.

I spent time at TechStars sitting through meetings, providing unique insight and points of view, and listening in on sessions with the mentors. I was very fortunate to meet and work with the best and brightest!