EWOR Names Oscar Winner Charles Ferguson to Lead San Francisco Push as US Applications Jump 237%
For most of the last two decades, ambitious founders outside the United States have asked one question: how do I get to San Francisco? EWOR, a fellowship founded in Berlin in 2021, has spent five years arguing that they should not have to. Its pitch is that talent is spread evenly around the world and opportunity is not, so it sends capital and mentors to founders wherever they happen to be. The odd thing about the past twelve months is who has been applying.
Applications from founders already based in the US, the one place where the opportunity is supposedly not in short supply, rose 237 percent. Today EWOR announced what it is doing about that: a San Francisco leadership team led by Charles Ferguson, an Oscar-winning filmmaker who sold his first company to Microsoft and now writes some of the earliest cheques in AI, alongside Katie Madding, who...
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