How I Discovered ZFellows

My ZFellows Experience was life-changing. I can’t imagine how got into it. Just completely random Twitter surfing got me into it.

I saw Matt Espinoza’s Tweet one day related to ZFellows and got interested in the program and applied to it.

Timeline

I applied to it on 3 Mar’22. Here is a copy of my application: ZFellows Application

I received an email from Cory on 10 Mar’22 asking me to schedule an Interview using his Calendly.

The Interview was only 10-15 minutes long. Cory’s Calendly only gives you 10-minute slots. So, make complete good use of the 10 minutes.

I made use of the tips which Matt Espinoza told me:

1. Focus on the problem-solution statement during the call of your company. Cory tends to back founders more than companies, so make sure your "founder proposition" is clear.
2. Send Cory all the company details (deck, website, traction)

The interview took place on 22 March’22. For the first 3-4 minutes, I just talked about my company and myself. At the beginning of the presentation, I focused on the company and on the latter part on my personal story. And the rest of the time, Cory asked me questions about the company, the metrics, the problems, the plan, and the future.

Then right after the interview, as Matt suggested, I mailed him the Deck along with some more details for his reference.

And I got the acceptance email on 9 May’22

The cohort ran from Mar 15 - Mar 20. The calls happened at about 1:30am / 2:00am IST so it was a lot tiring for me but it was so so worth it.