humbition origins
Start before the beginning.
A small program for exceptional MIT students who want to understand how great technology companies begin.
This is not
- a fellowship with hundreds of members
- a venture capital class
- a speaker series
- a resume credential
- a campus ambassador program
It’s closer to
an apprenticeship.
- Three students.
- Real companies.
- Real founders.
- Real conversations.
The semester
Small on purpose.
Students spend the semester alongside humbition looking at very early companies and talking about what makes founders, technologies and markets interesting.
- (0, 0)3 studentseach semester
- (1, 0)1 houreach week
- (2, 0)Real companiesat their very beginning
- (0, 1)Founder conversationswith people who've built them
- (1, 1)Origins dinnersin Cambridge and Boston
- (2, 1)A spring tripto New York
The emphasis is on developing judgment.
- Lens 01 — FoundersWhat makes a founder interesting?
- Lens 02 — TechnologiesWhat makes a technology interesting?
- Lens 03 — MarketsWhat makes a market interesting?
Origins dinners
Interesting people having dinner with interesting students.
Small dinners in Cambridge or Boston. Guests are usually entrepreneurs — people who have built companies themselves.
- VC networking
- Panels
- Conference programming
Curious how it starts?
[How to apply — who's eligible, when applications open, how to reach us.]