I don't care that the founder is spamming social media to get this bumped up. I care about them taking an equity stake in your company.
I would give a warning to anybody who reads this thread in the future and is seriously considering giving these guys shares. In a word: don't.
Their team has no history of successful exits and no members with technical talent that can be taken seriously; they are not going to help you build a company. Their "connections" are limited to the B-list of Silicon Valley. It's not clear that their founder can even write code.
Contrast this with the team at Y-Combinator.
Quality of accelerators are a power law that skews so far in the direction of YC that even attending the incubator in second place is a signal that you didn't get YC; Peter Thiel mentioned this in one of his lectures. It's not to say that you won't be successful if you don't do YC, it's to say that it's difficult to the value added by their "Accelerator" is greater than what you give up in exchange.
Once again, make your own decision by talking to them. They may change in the future, but you may also find them equally unimpressive.
I would give a warning to anybody who reads this thread in the future and is seriously considering giving these guys shares. In a word: don't.
Their team has no history of successful exits and no members with technical talent that can be taken seriously; they are not going to help you build a company. Their "connections" are limited to the B-list of Silicon Valley. It's not clear that their founder can even write code.
Contrast this with the team at Y-Combinator.
Quality of accelerators are a power law that skews so far in the direction of YC that even attending the incubator in second place is a signal that you didn't get YC; Peter Thiel mentioned this in one of his lectures. It's not to say that you won't be successful if you don't do YC, it's to say that it's difficult to the value added by their "Accelerator" is greater than what you give up in exchange.
Once again, make your own decision by talking to them. They may change in the future, but you may also find them equally unimpressive.